Re: benefits of invoke-rc.d

[Jon Dowland <jon-dowland@ncl.ac.uk>]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> None, UNLESS you are doing it from a script or doing something unusual. I
> wrote invoke-rc.d to get the package maintainer scripts (the stuff 
> dpkg runs
> when installing, updating or removing packages) to behave. Nothing else.

Interesting - so abstracting the init process' mechanisms (and allowing 
things like file-rc to exist) was an unplanned side effect? :)