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Bug#554831: introduce virtual facility x-display-manager for dependency based boot system



On Friday 06 November 2009 22:10:41 Jonas Meurer wrote:
> Package: kdm
> Severity: normal
> User: initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: missing-provides
> 
> hello,
>
> as discussed in bug #553338, it would be useful to have a virtual
> facility for display mangers in order to use it in LSB headers of
> initscripts.
>
> see http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DebianVirtualFacilities for
> more information.
> 
> all packages that provide a display manager, to my knowledge gdm, kdm,
> ldm, nodm, sdm, wdm and xdm, need to provide a file at
> /etc/insserv.conf.d/<package> with the following content:
> 
> $x-display-manager		<service_name>
> 
> for your particular package (kdm) this would be:
> 
> $x-display-manager		kdm
> 
> in /etc/insserv.conf.d/kdm

A bit ago, all display managers were providing x-display-manager in their lsb 
headers in the initscripts. We were asked to remove that, as insserv was 
unable to handle multiple scripts providing the same service.

Why not fix that insserv stupidity instead of add further hacks on top ?

And is there a helper script to install insserv.conf.d things?

/Sune
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