On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 12:07:25PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 01:12:25PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 06:05:48PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > I think that renaming and/or removing the init script symlinks is the > > > > Right Thing To Do, but the tools we have for doing this are awful. I > > > > think it would be a great solution if update-rc.d gained the following > > > > features: > > > > I think this should be a separate program, reserving update-rc.d for > > > maintainer script use. But please, not 'chkconfig', which is an entirely > > > unintuitive name. :) > > > ACK. What speaks against 'service'? :) > > If we use the name 'service', please also make it handle service > starting/stopping, which is what the program of the same name is > traditionally used for on Red Hat systems (and now on Ubuntu).
Makes sense. Yep. > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 06:26:26PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > > > >> ACK. What speaks against 'service'? :) > > > > Too generic? Maybe something like 'debserv' would be better, because > > > it's Debian specific. > > > Maybe I am wrong, but since (most of) the Debian-specific tools to deal > > with rc.d scripts end in -rc.d, why not 'service-rc.d'? > > As already mentioned, I very much don't want these tools to be bound to > sysv-rc, which I question the viability of in the long term. Additional I thought 'WTF' when I read '... because it's Debian specific...' because I really don't see a sense in that. Having tools for similar jobs do the same on every system is really a step in the right direction to standardization. Best Regards, Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org