On 3 January 2013 12:12, Fabian Keil <freebsd-lis...@fabiankeil.de> wrote: > Scot Hetzel <swhet...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Miroslav Lachman <000.f...@quip.cz> wrote: >> > Is somewhere written policy or portmgr recommendation about ports behavior >> > on install / deinstall? > > My impression is that every maintainer has her own undocumented > policy although the approaches taken could be grouped into a few > categories.
There is as far as I know no portmgr recommendation about stopping services etc; one may suggest that the inclusion of @stopdaemon support is encouragement, but also it's only supposed to be used if stopping the service is vital upon deinstall according to many. >> > I am talking about some ports doing "nasty" things. >> > >> > Some ports are stopping services on deinstall, some not. >> >> I prefer that when a port is uninstalled, that the service is stopped. > > As long as it is optional and doesn't happen automatically > I could live with that. Having this configurable with the current pkg_install suite is basically a non-starter. Allegedly this is a feature planned for pkgng. Currently, it is generally discouraged to put @stopdaemon into your pkg-plist unless something will probably break leaving your service running. Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
