Re: Is /etc/rc.boot/ obsolete or not?

To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
Cc: debian-policy@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Is /etc/rc.boot/ obsolete or not?
From: Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>
Date: 05 Jul 1999 09:43:42 -0700
Message-id: <[🔎] yttzp1byrlt.fsf@gilgamesh.cse.ucsc.edu>
In-reply-to: Miquel van Smoorenburg's message of "Mon, 5 Jul 1999 09:29:53 +0200"
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>>>>> "Miquel" == Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> writes:

    Miquel> It sounds more like you want a rc.local style directory,
    Miquel> not rc.boot.

    Miquel> But what is so difficult about update-rc.d? It's only one
    Miquel> line in the postinst .. (and one in prerm)

It's not difficult at all. But I'm just saying rc.boot doesn't need to
go away, as sometimes there's really no need for update-rc.d at
all. Why make things more complicated than they have to be?

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