On Jan 26, 2005 at 08:26, Marc Haber praised the llamas by saying: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name : policyrcd > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Author : Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?ZugSchlus > * License : GPL > Description : policy-compliant interface from invoke-rc.d to local > config files > > contains a script which is linked via the alternatives subsystem to > /usr/sbin/update-rc.d. This script looks for a local policy-rc.d > script in /usr/local an /etc, providing a policy- and FHS-compliant > way to interface invoke-rc.d with a local script. > > Without this package, a local admin wanting to cleanly interface with > invoke-rc.d is forced to drop a local binary to /usr/sbin and/or > manually interface with the alternatives system. Both ways of doing > this are clumsy and error-prone, so this package offers a clean way of > interfacing with sysvrc and file-rc. > > Since there are at least two packages containing their own version of > invoke-rc.d, having a search path policy for policy-rc.d can be > messy and is prone to be unstructured and uncoordinated. > > Hence, having a dedicated package is the clean way of doing things. > It seems a bit excessive having a package for just one script. Is there not another package this could go in instead?
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