On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 06:03:52AM +0000, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Package: lighttpd > Followup-For: Bug #383425 > > Of course, this problem is not specific to lighttpd. The same problem > occurs with other daemons which you may notwant to enable system-wide > but that users may want to use, such as MPD. Of course, the problem > also occurs in other circumstances, such as when creating a Debian > system inside a chroot jail. I understand the desire to make it easy > for the end user to just "install&start" the thing, but that doesn't > mean it should be the only way to operate. More specifically, I think > the packages should fundamentally distinguish installation from > activation. The default might be to activate at install time, but > there should then be an option to prevent the activation step. Making > the install fail just because you can't start the thing is > fundamentally incorrect.
No it's not. In a jail/chroot/whatever usually you hack your invoke-rc.d and friends so that it doesnt start things in postinst. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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