Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-61 Severity: wishlist Hi, This is a wishlist request which I think might require an amendment in the Debian Policy.
Currently, many of the services in a Debian installation are single mode. By "single mode", I mean they are always running daemons. There do are some (like exim), which are offered at install time, if a user wants to run them from inted. My proposal is that we have the init system with a machine type identifier. Example: MACHINE=laptop Currently, on my machine, I have many services running stand-alone as a daemon. Example: cupsd. In a laptop/desktop environment, we don't do regular printing. There is room for efficiency by providing the user with an option to let as many daemons as possible, to be run from inetd. This has a benefit. Especially for memory resources. The dictionary server, dictd, is another example. Previously, it was available as a standalone server. With multiple dictionary databases installed, I noticed that memory consumption could rise to around 100Megs. So, in standalone mode, ditcd alone would be consuming a 100Meg resource. d-i currently does detect hardware type during installation. We should have a global system variable defining the type of machine. And then, we should have a policy stating, "Every application, if possible to inet-ize, should have that option." And then that could be triggered with the global system variable. crond dictd many more daemons.... For laptop/destkop, we can save a lot of memory resource this way. Thanks, Ritesh -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-custom (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages initscripts depends on: ii debianutils 3.1.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii e2fsprogs 1.41.3-1 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti ii libc6 2.9-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-22 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii mount 2.13.1.1-1 Tools for mounting and manipulatin ii sysvinit-utils 2.86.ds1-61 System-V-like utilities Versions of packages initscripts recommends: ii psmisc 22.7-1 utilities that use the proc file s initscripts suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
