Re: Please remove rcconf
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:28:05AM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
The configuration is not interpreted to mean "no-op". As I said
before,
you said it, but it's wrong.
There is evidently a lot of confusion surrounding this issue.
Something should be added to the Debian Reference about it.
Luckily there's already something in debian policy:
By default update-rc.d will start services in each of the multi-user
state runlevels (2, 3, 4, and 5) and stop them in the halt runlevel (0),
the single-user runlevel (1) and the reboot runlevel (6). The system
administrator will have the opportunity to customize runlevels by simply
adding, moving, or removing the symbolic links in /etc/rcn.d if symbolic
links are being used, or by modifying /etc/runlevel.conf if the file-rc
method is being used.
Note the part about removing? It's in there because that was always a
supported action. The policy specifically states that you can remove
symlinks to manage them, and it also specifically states that the
package shouldn't reinstall symlinks as long as any one of them
remains--specifically to support removing some of them.
Mike Stone
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