On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 04:15:33PM +0200, Gilles Sadowski wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> > > Of course, from my point of view, The sysadmin should be
> > > given the opportunity to refuse the automatic creation of
> > > the services.  Could it be possible to add the necessary
> > > configuration in the install scripts?
> > 
> > Hi Gilles, I can understand your concern, but I'm currently not sure how
> > to solve this conflict.  The vserver environment doesn't need the
> > getties, sure, but they also don't hurt that much.  OTOH a non-virtual
> > system that installs runit-run, and by accident doesn't provide any
> > getty service, is a real pain as there's no possibility to login locally
> > to a console.  Users might even think the system didn't boot up
> > correctly.
> 
> Couldn't you just provide an option to not install the getties, accompanied
> by a strong warning, and possibly, make the user acknowledge the danger by
> having him type something like "Do as I say!", as they do when one tries to
> uninstall "essential" packages?

Hmm, I'll see what I can do, need to think about it.

Regards, Gerrit.


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