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Re: /svn/athena r24012 - in trunk/debathena/config/reactivate/debian:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Sun Sep 20 18:47:45 2009
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Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:47:33 -0400
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
CC: Robert Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>, source-commits@mit.edu,
Michael Mekonnen <mikemeko@mit.edu>
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Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Robert Basch wrote:
>
>> On Sep 20, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
>> Also, we want this to run before gdm, right? Maybe try:
>>
>> # X-Start-Before: gdm
>>
>> and nuke "$all" from the "Required-Start".
>
> While it's worth fixing the metadata, that won't actually make it run
> before gdm (unless dh_installinit is entirely too clever for its own
> good), although we probably don't need to do anything because init
> scripts default to S20, and gdm is S30gdm.
>
Right - the metadata isn't currently used, although Debian might be
using it in its new not-quite-upstart dependency-based startup.
But you /do/ want to be passing arguments to dh_installinit so that it
doesn't use the S20/K20 default, which is just dumb.
- Evan
