[systemd-devel] [HEADSUP] We no longer spawn 6 gettys by default

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 29.06.11 11:15, Stef Bon (stefbon at gmail.com) wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think it's ok to only activate the getty programs on demand. Maybe
> use only mingetty??

We gently try to push everybody to standardize on util-linux'
agetty. There is no point in maintaining multiple mostly equivalent
getty implementations. Also, as it turns out while mingetty uses less
disk space than agetty it uses more runtime memory. The few features
mingetty had that agetty didn't have have now been added to util-linux,
and hence mingetty should be considered fully obsolete.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.