[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#375183: invoke-rc.d: Uses hardcoded path to policy-rc.d

[Lars Wirzenius]

On su, 2007-12-23 at 11:47 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> This make me believe that if update-rc.d is changed to allow other
> locations, the documentation need to change a the same time.

Yes, of course.

> [Lars Wirzenius 2006-06-24]
> > This means that a sysadmin who wants to write a policy layer has to
> > put it into /usr/sbin, instead of /usr/local/sbin. This seems
> > suboptimal.
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> 
> These two comments are the only claims I find in the BTS report that
> this change is _needed_, and neither explain why.

Hardcoded paths are bad in general, requiring policy-rc.d to be
in /usr/sbin rather than anywhere on the path is not an exception, as
far as I care. I am not, however, particularly interested in hammering
this into other people's heads if they don't see the light.