Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 16:21 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > BTW, have you considered that some packages have other scripts than init > > scripts that source the default files. This includes cron jobs, acpi > > scripts, X session scripts, etc. There has been some scope creep there that > > could arguably be slightly beyond the original intent of defaults files, but > > would inarguably break if the defaults files were dropped. > > > Upstarts goal is that for a given package, you'll have a single file > in /etc/init that describes all of its services, tasks, cron jobs, etc. > So they'll all share the common settings in that one file.
If you just grep /etc for /etc/default, I think you'll see a range of uses that, at least to me, seem beyond anything upstart could sanely hope to encompass. It's even used by pam! -- see shy jo
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