on /etc/sysconfig

[mike cloaked]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Simo Sorce <simo at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Some daemons cannot be "fixed", get over with this mantra that daemons
>> need be fixed Lennart.
>
> If I were a betting man.... I'd wager that all the daemons we ship are
> easier to "fix" than the US deficit (in both the technical sense and
> in the sense of political will to make the necessary changes.)
>
> The necessary political will to obsolete /etc/sysconfig may not exist
> at this very moment but I think that the reasoning is sound enough
> that anticipating, identifying and mitigating potential problems the
> removal would cause seems a reasonable use of someones time to
> minimize the disruption such a removal will cause in the year or two
> leading up to it actually happening.

I guess the process can be started - but by the time it is ready for
prime time then any daemons that need to work should have been tested
to work without the need for any /etc/sysconfig/... files - just by
the way what then out of interest is the replacement for a
/etc/sysconfig/desktop file that defines which login manager should be
the default (and which is not there by default)? Can KDM then be
started when X starts and not GDM without the use of the above file?

-- 
mike c