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["James E. LaBarre" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not quite.  Single-user mode is useless if you need network
connectivuty.  That's the purpose of it, disabling all devices and
getting to a bare running command prompt.  If you instead want to work
on the system *WITH* the network enabled, then a text-only runlevel is
needed.  Also, if you want to leave the system headless and only run GUI
applications remotely, it's foolish to have a GUI running at the
console.

But as I had pointed out YEARS ago when first describing this bug; if
you have hardware that will need some custom tweaking, you will need
network connectivity **AND** no GUI running.  I know, with the headlong
lemming-rush towards Wayland, the idea that someone may need to work on
a text-only system is completely alien.

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