On 31 July 2013, at 19:09, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Stroller > <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: >> >> On 31 July 2013, at 18:23, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> ... >>> Whinging about systemd binaries being installed is valid, but whinging >>> about some data files is not. Anyone who does is letting their OCD show >>> in ways they really should be keeping private. >> >> Hmmmn, it's a bit freaking weird - if I'm understanding correctly some of >> the statements made here about systemd - that there will be files installed >> to /etc/init.d/ that don't actually do anything. > > If you use systemd, all the files installed in /etc/init.d (except > functions.sh) don't actually do nothing.
Right, which is a bit freakin' odd, because on most every previous distro and other *nix system, that's where the system administrator goes to start and stop services. If they're not used, in this case, I don't think they should be installed. /etc/init.d is wholly different from /usr/share/package-name/examples There are many other directories on the system where it's no problem to have some idle, unused, "wasted" files, but /etc/init.d has long been an important directory. Stroller.
