On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 01:47 +0800, 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...
>
> Thomas
This tends to be used for packages that cannot provide a reasonable
default configuration, and would need to be hand edited before
activating the service.
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