Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> writes: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> Please support init scripts in /lib/init.d (or a similar >> location). Init scripts are not configuration and as such should not >> be installed into /etc (though I doubt we can drop support for that). > > No. > > We would have to support a "shadow" system, where anything in /etc/init.d > would override the same named script in /lib/init.d, for no gain over what > we currently have. > > And we are not breaking a 30-year old ABI _and_ adding undue complexity to > sysv-rc without very strong reasons. > > Also, system initscripts *are* system configuration items, and are seldom > modified by the local sysadmin.
The symlinks in /etc/rc?.d/* and /etc/default/* are configuration files, but init script themselves are not (and if admins are supposed to modify them, I would call them buggy). Local sysadmins also seldom modify files below /usr (and not in /usr/local)... Ansgar _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list Pkg-sysvinit-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
