Bug#40766: PROPOSED] Rewrite of "Configuration files" section
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 12:19:28PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> the /etc/init.d startup scripts as configuration files in any purest
> sense; they are more acurately described as "scripts subject to local
> modification" (which I personally would prefer be modified to store the
> configuration data (including whether or not the daemon was actually to
> be started) somewhere else, leaving the actual init script unmodified).
Well, packages shouldn't really do that themselves -- they shouldn't
be modifying their init.d scripts if they are conffiles. I recently
hacked the cucipop package not to do this.
Hamish
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