Martin Wuertele wrote: > Hi Steve! > > * Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> [2009-08-24 10:03]: > >> The main thing I know about file-rc is that it's a corner case that further >> breaks upgrade handling when packages need to renumber their symlinks in >> /etc/rc?.d. I know "embedded" is often used as a catch-all to describe all >> kinds of crackful ideas, but I'm at a loss to see how this makes file-rc >> in particular appealing to anyone. > > It's easy to maintain, it doesn't require a bunch of symlinks like > sysv-rc nor does it require the magic of insserv, it is easy to change > the order in which services are started without time-consuming resolving > dependencies (eg linksys WRT54GS v1.1, asus wl500g boot pretty fast with > it).
There is no reason to use insserv on embedded systems, though if you do, you could create the image somewhere else on a fast machine and don't have the draw backs of time-consuming resolving dependencies AFAICS? Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
