Making it possible to uninstall initscripts / insserv and facilities

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Tue Nov 24 18:52:55 GMT 2015


Am 24.11.2015 um 19:32 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen:
> The reason I do not like this is that insserv do not know about package
> names and only do know about the dependency format and derive everything
> from there.  I believe it is a mistake to hardcode script names into
> insserv.  I also believe it is a mistake to teach insserv about systemd,
> which it know nothing about and do not really care, as it only operates
> on files in /etc/init.d/ and create symlinks based on the information in
> those files.

From a purely asthetic POV I agree with you. The reality is, that we
have multiple init systems now and I don't think we can treat them as
completely isolated.
We need some mechanisms how we can tell each other what facilities are
provided by whom.

-- 
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universe are pointed away from Earth?

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