Reasons to preseve X on tty7

[shmuel siegel]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 23:36 -0600, Dax Kelson wrote:
>   
>> I would argue strongly that this change should not be made for the
>> following reasons (in no particular order):
>>     
>
> Does it matter? Seriously, we need to start X on ttyX and start ONE
> mingetty on ttyX+1. Loading mingetty on 6 terminals takes time.
>
> Who uses more than one mingetty anyway? Surely the sort of person
> comfortable with the RSI-inducing ctrl-alt-Fx is the sort of person that
> can edit a config file and increase the number if we provide one by
> default.
>
> I was thinking about trying to tackle the boot time of fedora (and get
> to the 5 second nirvana), but I fear that bikeshedding like this will
> mean we are still loading sendmail, isdn, nfslock, and all other legacy
> stuff in ten years time.
>
> Richard.
>
>
>   
You are responding to an issue that no one is bringing up. No one is 
talking about how many mingettys are launched. On the other hand you are 
declaring as a resolved starting point the very thing that is being 
questioned. The question is "who gets tty1".