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[Seth Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>]

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On Sat, 31 May 2003, Andrew wrote:

> On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 11:38:31AM -0700, Seth Woolley wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 31 May 2003, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> > >
> > > M.L. wrote:
> > >
> > > >>I have been thinking that all spells should strive for some level
> > > >>automation, removing the dialog-based portions wherever possible.  
> > > >>That way
> > > >>spells can be upgrade or recast (on a rebuild, for instance) without
> > > >>someone constantly watching for pop up dialogs.
> > > >
> > > >Interresting... I'd like to have safe unattended updates too.
> > >
> > > BTW, another side of this is not attempting to start/stop a service on
> > > recast. Sorcery shouldn't do this IMO.
> >
> > I couldn't agree more...
> >
> more over i think that it shouldnt automatically link in services to
> init. I hate having to go through and delete all those fscking symlinks
> everytime i recast something. Just because I want nfs-utils around for a
> pinch doesnt mean i want to have it start up automatically on boot. Same
> goes for bind and a number of other things.
>

I second this: no init services by default.  We should query the user
during CONFIGURE if they need the service to start by default and set the
execute modes of the init script respectively.

The mere act of casting shouldn't change the number of running services
either on next reboot or right after install without some explicit
permission from the admin.

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