On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 07:42:55PM +0000, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Debian is intended to work "simply" for the most used scenario, and to > > need a 10 liner configuration for the less common ones. It's more common > > that people want their sole httpd to be started on install than users > > having lots of chroots. > > Sure. As I said: "The default might be to activate at install time, but > there should then be an option to prevent the activation step". > > > The latter people are supposed to know how to disable the "launch > > everything on install" thing using the debian's sysv-rc documentation: > > /usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README.policy-rc.d.gz > > /usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README.invoke-rc.d.gz > > How would we know? To me the issue is one of package management, not > one of rc.d configuration. So please make this information more visible > when looking for it from the dpkg-side. Some kind of xref in `dpkg' > manual would help. Well I reckon it's not really well documented, I'm not not sure where to put that. dpkg is maybe not the place to put that. I'll followup that on -devel@ so that people can propose proper solutions. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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