some changes for (slightly) faster boot

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:01:40PM -0500, Bryan Clark wrote:
> Your logic across all of this weighs on the fact that it is difficult
> for admins to setup defaults or for users to share defaults among
> machines.  Say we were to change that problem, then these would all be
> per-user preferences again, yes? :-)

per-user per-system in some cases. I use the same /home from US and UK 
keyboards and 3 different display sizes. I'm sure that isn't too unusual