vt2-6 still not available with base system

Samuel Thibault sthibault at debian.org
Sun Nov 9 19:04:12 GMT 2014


Michael Biebl, le Sun 09 Nov 2014 19:56:40 +0100, a écrit :
> Running
>  for i in `seq 2 6` ; do systemctl enable getty at tty$i.service; done
> on a system without dbus, would statically enable a getty on vt2-6.

I know, but I don't think we want to make the user have to do that.

> So we could simply document this fact (in README.Debian, release notes etc).
> 
> The alternative would be, to bump dbus to priority standard, so it's
> installed by default (on new installations).

It is already priority standard.  That is not enough to make it part of
the base system though.

> A third idea would be to have a generator, which creates the
> getty at tty$i.service symlinks in /run/systemd/system/getty.target.wants
> Implementing that in shell, would only take a couple of lines.
> 
> We should be careful though, to add yet another generator.

Yes :/

Samuel




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