Bug#325234: debian-policy: mention if coincidence runlevels 2345 all same
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 02:03:27PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
>On Monday 29 August 2005 02:42, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 04:09:46AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> Debian doesn't enforce a policy on the multi-user run-levels (2-5), this
>> is the decision of the local administrator.
>
>I agree that not enforcing a policy on run-levels is fine, the admin should
>always be able to change them as he see fits.
>
>but is there really any good reason to have the default run-level states
>differ from the LSB defined init-level states [1]?
>
>[1]
>http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/runlevels.html
Yes, a technical one. Given that the recommended way to call
update-rc.d is currently using the argument "defaults", achiving the
granularity described in to document above would require modifying all
packages calling update-rc.d .
If we were to go to that effort, I'd suggest enhancing update-rc.d such
that in place of "defaults" a list of classes could be provided,
something like: "multi,network,gui" which would map by default to 2-5,
the mapping presumably defined in a config file.
Not really sure that it's worth the effort.
--bod
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