Re: Can insserv made better?
On Mon January 17 2011 11:55:24 Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> As it was already pointed out to you, such occurences were due to
> incomplete dependencies declared in the initscripts - And as such,
> they were bugs in the respective packages. The right way to fix them
> is to provide the needed dependency information in the startup
> scripts.
Were Debian to replicate all of the dependencies implicit
in the Snn/Knn approach it would require enormous numbers
of dependencies, most of which have no value for most users.
OTOH, to omit any of those dependencies could cause a
failure on some systems. You simply do not know and
cannot know what dependencies are out in the world in
the Snn/Knn approach, and which can safely be removed
on any given system.
That is why sysadmins should be able to decide if and
when to enable insserv based on accurate and unbiased
information.
--Mike Bird
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