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Re: Please remove rcconf



On Tue, 09 Mar 2004, Thomas Hood wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 16:20, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Can we just document this to be "Service state is not modified on runlevel
> > changes involving that runlevel"?  At least, that is not a dangerous, nor
> > broken behaviour.
> 
> Sorry, I don't follow you here.  Which documentation?  Do you mean

Developers Reference and Debian policy.

> that the rcconf documentation should be changed so that it correctly
> describes rcconf's behavior?  I.e., that rcconf switches services
> between "on" and "floating" rather than between "on" and "off"?

rcconf should just be fixed to put kill links. "floating" instead of "off"
is a bad idea to begin with IMHO, unless you have the three states.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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