Reasons to preseve X on tty7

[Les Mikesell]

Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2008-10-30, 05:06 GMT, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Doesn't fit with the code. 7.3 was the last in the 
>> 'increasingly reliable' series.  8 and 9 each introduced new 
>> breakage that was never fixed.
> 
> I was in the Debian-land then already, what were the problems?  
> (you mean wonderful new gcc, which required kernel-only 
> compiler?).

I've tried to block the most painful details from memory...  But aside 
from the gcc and gnome desktop stuff, the killer for me was that they 
had finally, finally gotten the compile options right for apache and 
mod_perl to work as shipped in a 7.3 update - and broke it again in 8 
and never fixed it.

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   Les Mikesell
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