Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:
> > I think I heard of someone using them *once*. It is very rare, AFAIK.
>
> > However, if there is one thing I learned the hard way, is that people
> > who use the advanced features don't make themselves or that fact known
> > unless you ask. They often don't show up even when you break things for
> > them :-(
>
> Back when we were arguing over the right way to disable an init script so
> that the state was preserved across package upgrades, I remember several
> people saying policy.d was the right way to disable a specific service.
> Presumably a few people were using it based on that.
Yes... that's probably where I heard about some more advanced uses of
policy-rc.d other than the usual one-liner "exit 101" for use inside chroots
:-)
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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