On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 09:16:31AM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: >> It seems to me that it would be a lot less effort to fix this by removing >> file-rc in Debian, which has only a handful (137) of popcon reports. Even >> if we take into consideration that popcon isn't a good source of absolute >> numbers, this comes out to .2% of popcon reports that we're spending this >> effort on, and for what benefit? > Benefit of having an abstraction layer.
That's not a benefit, that's a burden. You don't abstract things that you don't *need* to have abstracted. > - They never had to fiddle with runlevels, so they don't known what > a nuisance it is with sysv-rc. As far as I'm concerned, that's an argument for improving the tools for managing runlevels via sysv-rc, not for changing the update-rc.d API. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org