Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:56:06 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing XFree86 package via sysinstall: need X wrapper or not? Message-ID: <20020623125606.A18232@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <xzpheju21z0.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 03:55:15AM %2B0200 References: <20020621135806Z.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20020621134520.G68827@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020621223209.GP76002@squall.waterspout.com> <xzp4rfv3bbb.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020622200545.GS76002@squall.waterspout.com> <20020622204229.GG53232@elvis.mu.org> <xzpheju21z0.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 03:55:15AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> writes: > > Not having 'startx' or having a 'startx' that doesn't work is > > really a bad idea. It _will_ annoy users. > > Only users who haven't yet entered the 90s and discovered xdm. I don't run X using xdm because doing so means /usr is always busy and thus you can't do a "mount -ru /usr" before loading a module thus saving a lot of time on boot if the module panics the system. This is especialy critical on my laptop where fsck takes 5-10 minutes on /usr. Backgroups fsck is a real savior, but it's still a pain. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9FifVXY6L6fI4GtQRAm2pAKDDKgDY7FHqQb8rPtx0JsfjJhh5yACgnHRd n0rL+7yti2LHsYiHhFxQuVM= =FqUt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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