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Date:      Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:44:32 -0700
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ttys patch - any objections?
Message-ID:  <20020926144432.GA33089@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200209261350.g8QDoLRP003375@grimreaper.grondar.org>
References:  <20020926094019.A58629-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> <200209261350.g8QDoLRP003375@grimreaper.grondar.org>

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On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:50:20PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> > This seems a lot like personal preferance to me, I for one don't like a
> > lot of tty's, because running getty on a bunch of ttys that I'm not going
> > to use is a waste of ram.... I usually keep F1-F3 as ttys, and make F4 run
> > kdm. I know I don't really have a say, but I'm sure everyone has his or
> > her own preference.
> 
> Sure! That is why I'm doing a straw poll. If more people seem to like this,
> I'll commit it. If I get shouted down, I'll keep it as a local hack.
> 

I agree with Ken that this is a personal preference 
thingie.  I have X tied to F8.  There is no real reason
for this choice other than inertia.  I suspect people who use
mergemaster won't have a problem with your proposed change;
either they'll accept your change during the merge or keep
their current setting.

-- 
Steve

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