On Sun, 26 May 2013 16:52:27 +0200
Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 5/26/13 1:58 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 May 2013 12:57:42 +0200
> > Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Switch inittab? Now you added really dangerous behavior to the
> > > wrapper code. I can hardly even express this in words.
> >
> > It doesn't need to be in the wrapper, inittab is something read at
> > boot only as far as I am aware and therefore eselect can do it.
> 
> Apparently it is read when you switch runlevel as well.

Ouch, that indeed makes it impossible for eselect to do this and makes
the wrapper more complex; unless there is a sane way to on reboot, but
then we would be implementing this in too many places. I think some of
the other suggestions made here also don't take this into account.

Thanks for mentioning.

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