Reasons to preseve X on tty7

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 29 October 2008 at 10:31, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:25 +0200, shmuel siegel wrote:
> > 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".
> 
> Who cares? If X lives on tty7 and you get an extra flicker, then that's
> bad. If it lives on ttyX and it doesn't flicker, it's good.
> 
> The sort of person that even knows what a tty is, is probably in a
> position where they can change it to whatever they want. Seriously, had
> anyone done any research on the number of Fedora users who even use
> ttys?
> 
> This isn't a community decision decided by +1 or -1's. This is the
> package maintainer (and upstream) changing with a good reason.

Well, the community is saying that reason is not good enough.
I think it's fair to ask the package maintainer to reconsider.
Making changes that break years-long traditional behaviour
without community consultation is arrogant at best.

Regards,
R.

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