Re: of virtual packages and services
> > and then (analogous to update-alternatives), it uncomments one of
> > remaining daemons (if any) providing this service
>
> Hrm. Using its own database like update-alternatives, or comments in
> /etc/inetd.conf, or...? Is update-alternatives really the example to
> follow here? I suppose it makes a certain amount of sense.
It does make sense. Then things can relate the inetd entry to a package so
one can do something like:
# update-service --config auth
(* = prefered, + = active)
Status Package Binary options
1 * oidentd /usr/sbin/oidentd nowait ....
2 + pidentd /usr/sbin/pidentd nowait ....
Choose a number if you wish to change the default[12]:
You'll note this is very similar to update-alternatives' --config option.
Then we can also have a similar option to guage which one is prefered (like
update-alternatives does in auto mode).
Ben
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