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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 08:25:07AM +0000, Eric Schabell wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 December 2004 03:26, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> > > > And, I'm wondering how it turns the box into unusable?  If it does
> > > > THAT, then it is clear we need either an essential init script added 
> > > > or
> > > > some more logic added to an already existing essential init script. 
> > > > Thus, bug, file, now, as Andrew says. ;)
> > >
> > > The other thing is, that not all the non-ESSENTIAL init scripts in the
> > > init.d spell are really optional either. Most systems should have them,
> > > but then when sorcery looks at the ESSENTIAL bit, it doesnt know how to
> > > make that distinction. The init.d querying code in sorcery was written
> > > for the common case of a spell installing some non-essential service,
> > > not for the specific case of the init.d spell, which obviously isnt
> > > installing your average everyday plug-in init scripts. So what I would
> > > prefer is the init.d spell do its own thing for init files that are
> > > optional only for users who really really dont want them. It can and
> > > should still use the libinitd calls for installing the files but should
> > > probably have its own specific set of querying routines for these files,
> > > otherwise we have to make sorcery even more complicated to handle not
> > > only common case situations but special case situations.
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> > I presume jkolb can tell us where we goofed on defaulting to no at (in a
> > special case that requires a special "dispensation").
> >
> > Seth
> 
> Why not have the menu pop up like the iso does to ask what you want enabled 
> or 
> disabled in the way of init-scripts, filled with current settings:
> 
> (x) mount.sh
> ( ) hotplug
 
That might be nice, but if it's done it can only be optional, so we
still need a different way to make it "just work".

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