It's actually nothing to do with being started by D-BUS It was simply decided by the developers to do it this way, because editing the RC symlinks was considered "wrong" I guess.
I admit this was a bad way to do it, I was going to implement a patch to check how it was being started but I wasn't able to get it in time for edgy unfortunately. -- /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon is useless https://launchpad.net/bugs/56426 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
