On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 21:44 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > I'd like us to decide on a policy about enable/disable flags in > /etc/default in general. Either all daemons should have them or no > daemons should have them, and if we have them, I think we should have > the value in the default file should be standardised. > > Personally, I'd rather we didn't have them, as this is supposed to be > controlled by the rcN.d links and if that interface is too hard for > people we should fix that rather than invent multiple ways of disabling > daemons, but the current mess is, well, a mess. +1 I think the existence of this FOO_ENABLED stuff is symptomatic of the fact that update-rc.d, at least by itself, isn't sufficient for the needs of packagers (let alone end-users, who often end up wrongly thinking that this is the tool they are supposed to use to enable/disable init scripts) sean
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