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Re: service helper package



Hi,

Thomas Goirand wrote:
Stephen Gran wrote:
# Check whether we were configured to not start the services.
check_for_no_start() {
    if [ "$SERVICE_DISABLED" = "yes" ]; then
This is such a broken behavior. Initscripts are enabled and disabled in
the configuration of the init system.
That's not quite true - many packages in debian use an enable/disable
variable in an /etc/default/package file.

Not talking about any policy, but I personally hate it. Why on earth
would you want to have a package NOT to work if you install it? This is
insane...
You might want to disable _temporarily_ a certain application? It's easier/quicker than to reconfigure the init system and you don't loose the information about run-levels where the program is meant to start.

Eric


Thomas





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