On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 08:40:24PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > In any case, the main reason why we standardized run-levels was so > that we could generalize this common practice in a > distribution-nuetral way. The problem seems to be that Debian has > absolutely no standards in this space, and there are people who view > this as a feature. Personally, I view this as being little different > than most things which end up in Debian Policy. Stuff in Debian > Policy restricts the "freedom" of developers. But it allows for debian policy is mainly designed to ensure maximal freedom of the sysadmin to control things, and restricts the developers `freedom' to stomp all over the admin's configuration. it also ensures packages are sane and consistent, but the way it read it its primary goal is for the sysadmin's benifit. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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