On Mi, 11 ian 12, 10:26:48, Bob Proulx wrote: > > For reasons that I haven't been following there has been a push to > remove those shutdown links generally from everything. I don't know > why. Perhaps someone else will comment on why. Removing those links > seems like it breaks going to single user mode directly from multiuser > mode but I only go to single user mode from a reboot anyway so I guess > that is okay. I am sure the reasoning is that the reboot or halt will > kill everything no matter what so might as well get to it as quickly > as possible. On a server machine this wouldn't ever be an issue but > waiting for a laptop to shutdown could be annoying.
From lurking on debian-devel I can tell that your guess is right on :) (the motive is to speed-up the shutdown). Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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