On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 12:19:28PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > the /etc/init.d startup scripts as configuration files in any purest > sense; they are more acurately described as "scripts subject to local > modification" (which I personally would prefer be modified to store the > configuration data (including whether or not the daemon was actually to > be started) somewhere else, leaving the actual init script unmodified).
Well, packages shouldn't really do that themselves -- they shouldn't be modifying their init.d scripts if they are conffiles. I recently hacked the cucipop package not to do this. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.
