<quote>randominternet: ask yourself if you really need
runlevels?</quote>

There are two basic runlevel controls in the Unix/Linux world, the
System V way, and BSD way.  They both have there own pros and cons, and
I am not going to debate them here.  The way init scripts and run levels
work is well defined.  It is even part of the Linux Standards Base,
which defines how Linux distributions are supposed to work for 3rd party
vendors, application developers, etc.  Take a good look at
http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-
Core-generic/tocsysinit.html and http://refspecs.linux-
foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-
generic/runlevels.html.

If there are no separate runlevels, then standardization has been thrown
out the window.

<quote>randominternet: you can easily add a "grep /proc/cmdline trigger"
into an if statement to control any rc script</quote>

The end user shouldn't have to do this.  With the "BSD way" everything
could be thrown into one directory (as opposed to rc1.d, rc2.d, etc.) or
it could be just 1 central rc script.  However, there is still a
separation of runlevels and controlling what each runlevel does.

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Fail to enter rc1.d by putting 1 in bootparam in edgy
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