> On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 05:57:55PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > I don't think it's base-config's job to work around what looks like a > > bug in xdm for not starting the daemon on initial install. Forwarding > > to the XSF. > > This done for two reasons: > > 1) historical > 2) display managers are not like other daemons; they start an X server > on a local VT by default which yanks the console away > > I'm willing to listen to a case against both of these.
There was a typo. It's actually not about xdm, it's about xfs.