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Paul Joseph Davis commented on COUCHDB-499:
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Oh good point. I'm not sure exactly who does use the /etc/default/ system.
I think the couchdb-server idea isn't too bad, but once again, principle of
least suprise. People installing couchdb would probably just default to
`apt-get install couchdb` and then get confused by it not starting. Though, to
the same effect, you could instead add a couchdb-core package that doesn't
install the system scripts, and then the couchdb package does. That'd solve the
downstream packagers from the possible trip up.
> allow /etc/default/couchdb to control whether couchdb is started by default
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>
> Key: COUCHDB-499
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-499
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 0.10
> Environment: Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
> Reporter: Elliot Murphy
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 0.10
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> Attachments: control-service-start.patch
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> couchdb starts by default when installed on Ubuntu (or any debian derivative).
> In Ubuntu, we are including couchdb in the default desktop install.
> however, we are not using the system couchdb, we are starting a per-user
> couchdb instance on-demand.
> separately, ubuntu is working on minimizing boot times.
> it would be nice if laptops and netbooks did not have couchdb startup time
> included in a normal system boot unless the user really wanted to have the
> system couchdb starting up. this is the Ubuntu bug number for reference:
> https://code.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/427036
> One way to fix this would be to use a variable in /etc/default/couchdb to
> determine whether or not to start the system couchdb instance. This is the
> approach that is taken by pulseaudio, fetchmail, and monit. I'm discussing
> this fix with Ubuntu core-devs now:
> https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~statik/ubuntu/karmic/couchdb/fix-bug427036/+merge/11543
> I'm also attaching a patch which changes the init script and
> /etc/couchdb/default in the way I've just described.
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