Subject: Re: more work in rc.d [was Re: rc, rc.shutdown proposed change]
To: None <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/12/2000 18:31:59
>  > c) Add support for /etc/rc.pkg.d, and ensure that that directory
>  >    is created during installation.
>  >    This is for packages. After a package installation a user should
>  >    copy the script from /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/ to /etc/rc.pkg.d
>  >    to enable the startup.
> 
> This is a lose.  Once the user installs a package, he shouldn't have
> to copy stuff around to make it go.  I think this is going to be a serious
> negative for our pkg system.

Our pkg system has never defined the difference between "services are
installed" and "services are configured for this system". This is, in
and of itself, a problem. 

The proposed change doesn't fix it, but it also doesn't make it worse.

        - Nathan