On 11-Sep-2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 09 Sep 2005, Joe Smith wrote: > > The proper way to activate the package *IS* by changing inittab. > Then tell the user that, and DO NOT TOUCH /etc/inittab. Unless by using a well-defined interface for doing so. To my knowledge, such a thing doesn't yet exist. > Yes. But AFAIK there are absolutely no plans to provide an > interface for ANY package to touch /etc/inittab. Screwing it up is > so utterly callous, that one would have to be out of his mind to > encourage any package to attempt to "auto configure" anything inside > /etc/inittab. Yet it is a configuration file with a simple, well-defined format; surely such a tool is conceivable? Would you recommend against using it, regardless of its merits, if it did exist? -- \ "If you continue running Windows, your system may become | `\ unstable." -- Microsoft, Windows 95 BSOD message | _o__) | Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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