Re: solving the network-manager-in-gnome problem

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2012-07-30 12:01:08 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On 12-07-30 at 12:37pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > I'd say there is a need for:
> > 
> > 1. a system-wide setting to start daemons or not on boot/upgrades/etc.
> > 2. a blacklist - daemons listed here should not start no matter what
> > 3. a whitelist - daemons listed here should start no matter what
> > 
> > This should satisfy all camps ;)
> 
> That should be simple to setup, as the infrastructure exist already: 
> policy.d.
> 
> What I do locally to suppress starting daemons inside chroots is use 
> policyrcd-script-zg2 and then add a [custom script]. That script should 
> be easily changed/extended e.g. using "run-parts --list", and either 
> published at our wiki or released in a package conflicting with 
> policyrcd-script-zg2.

There's a lack of documentation, with examples, e.g. on how to
blacklist a daemon.

-- 
Vincent Lefèvre <vincent@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/>
100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/>
Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)