Re: removing in postrm rc*.d symlinks that I did not create

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

Nicolas Boullis <nboullis@debian.org> writes:

> A package of mine installs an init script. But as the corresponding
> programs plays with the motherboard's chipset configuration, it is quite
> prone to break the system. So I chose not to install rc*.d symlinks by
> default.

A technique that I've used in packages with this issue is to install the
rc*.d symlinks by default, but also have the init script check a file in
/etc/default to see whether or not to actually start at boot.  If you
install a default /etc/default file that says not to start, you accomplish
the same thing, don't have this problem, and make it just as easy for
users to enable the package.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>