Control: tags -1 + wontfix upstream On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 10:54:53AM +0800, [email protected] wrote: > We see > -P, --Purge > Purge the information stored in the cache file. See the FILES > section below and the --cache option. > However there also should be a way to > -P, --Purge [service...] > just for specific services, and not ruin the whole cache.
(I am aware the OP doesn't use this package anymore but I am addressing the bug for completeness.) I don't think there exists a use case that would benefit from this feature now that sysv-rc-conf by default invokes insserv on Debian to set up the dependency-based boot sequence, making priority levels unimportant let alone the need to remove a specific service from the cache. (It would be nice if a future version of sysv-rc-conf gained a native capability to update dependency-based booting so it doesn't need to invoke an external tool.) So the service cache is really not much use at all now. The interesting use case for it, which I still think would not benefit from selective purging, is as a way of saving and restoring service symlink settings, as per this ancient feature request: https://sourceforge.net/p/sysv-rc-conf/feature-requests/1/
