Reasons to preseve X on tty7

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:23 +0000, Jeremy Sanders wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> > Then we need to also teach autofs to start these services on demand.
> > Having all the daemons on for the 1% of Linux users who use NFS (esp on
> > things like laptops) is not the answer. We are moving more and more to a
> > system where Linux adjusts dynamically to its environment (think
> > NetworkManager, think device hot plugging, etc.)
>
> Then please make sure you do this before making tiny optimisations.
> 
> I suspect it will be hard as autofs is partly in the kernel. You'd need to
> ask an autofs expert whether this is possible without serious redesign.
IMO, the solution is to have bootup (network-) profiles to conditionally
configure "starting up" services depending upon what the user demanded
during boot up.