On Saturday 26 February 2011 21.44:07 Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > I'd like us to decide on a policy about enable/disable flags in > /etc/default in general.
+1 on those who don't like to have them.
The init scripts (or whatever) need to
* provide a sane default for startup order
* allow users to override this
* allow for startup of a daemon to be (de)activated persistently
(persistent over package upgrades, that is.)
* and the package scripts (pre/postinst on upgrade especially) need to
respect this (i.e. work in a sane way when the daemon is down, not leaving
it started if it wasn't started etc.)
* all documentation needs to be updated so that users finally don't end up
doing silly things just so that mysql isn't started on boot[1].
I'm sure I forgot some, but I that are the ones I can just think of.
The whole topic shouldn't be Debian specific. I have no idea, but isn't
there an LSB or whatever spec? Where does it fall short? Who should be
involved to get something that other distributions could use as well?
-- vbi
[1] Yes, I know, the "mysql needs to be installed for kde but I don't want
to run it" case has finally been solved. Similar cases will keep coming up,
I'm sure...
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-- Oliver Hassencamp
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