Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just a comment now. I love Debian, i really do but i has one > major lack. I'm talking about a main rc file like the rc.config on > SuSE. In this file should be informations wherer deamons/services > should be started or not. That is necessary because, as strang it > sounds, there is no reason that i use a package when i install it.
Most packages have the client and server separated out into separate packages; if you don't want to run, say, a MySQL server, you can generally get away with just not installing the mysql-server package. > I don't understand why this isn't implemented in Debian bcause it > would be so easy. Does the file-rc package do what you want? > I started now to add such options bymyself such as for mysql. There > i have a "START_MYSQL=NO" in a /etc/rc.conf file and the init script > checks if that is set. There's starting to be a convention of putting that sort of configuration into files in /etc/default. Also, if you don't want to start a particular service in particular circumstances, you can manually frob the symlinks in /etc/rc?.d to control what gets started in which runlevel. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
