Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate funct

[Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Clint Adams wrote:

> > Ok, let's bring this back to implementation.  How would you propose we handle
> > this?  Currently daemons install, set themselves up, and begin running.
> > 
> > a) we can prompt.
> > b) we leave everything off and let the admin turn it on (not an option for
> > obvious reasons)
> > c) first come first serve -- first daemon installed does its job, the rest
> > install unconfigured
> > 
> > any others?
> 
> d) have something that keeps track of installed services, perhaps with
>    priorities akin to alternatives.  If there weren't an issue of
>    services being run either in inetd or standalone, this could
>    be accomplished with a souped-up update-inetd.

I'll stick my hand up for option (c). The effort involved in
modifiying configurations is marginal.

Anand.