Re: Bug#325234: debian-policy: mention if coincidence runlevels 2345 all same
cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
- It shouldn't be to hard to convert a system over to LSB-runlevels if
the
runlevels and initscripts haven't been changed.
For years I couldn't see the point in different run-levels, for exactly
the reasons others have given on this thread - it's easier to just
remove packages if you don't need them.
Then I found a situation where they were very useful to me at work. The
servers we shipped for a particular project are in master/slave pairs.
All the debian packages on them are in their standard states and run in
one run-level. Our proprietary software is installed to run in only one
of the run-levels; now switching between master and slave is a simple
case of changing the run-level.
If we did what you propose, and tried to convert existing systems to use
the LSB runlevels, this would break my servers, which rely on the two
run-levels they use being otherwise identical. (It's unlikely that the
servers in question will ever be upgraded apart from important security
fixes, but I'm sure there must be other people using run-levels similarly).
Note that I didn't touch the configuration of any of the packages; all
are running in their default run-levels. How on an upgrade are you going
to detect that I have special requirements and don't want to use LSB
runlevels?
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