On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:29:20AM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 07:06:34PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 07:55:31AM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > > quality packages to Debian. I'm confident the problem will be solved > > > technically some day. > > > > It's solved now - edit configuration files! It's not essential that > > everything can be configured by adding/removing packages. > > It's not essential to have everything configured through configuration > files.
Perhaps not, but it is the traditional approach on UNIX. > files. I haven't heard any reason yet why splitting the packages would > be a bad thing. > > And there's more advantages: it eases usage of different service > managers than sysvinit and init scripts, support of a different init > scheme can be done through an alternative package which 'provides' the > default *-run package; same for services running under a superserver, > and corresponding alternatives; it plays well with fully automated > installs; it separates services from programs. These problems should be solved by discussion and generation of a policy. IMHO it would be better to have a consistent approach that didn't solve every problem (or had some other flaw) than to have each individual developer generate their own scheme. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
