On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Don Armstrong] > > innserv needs to be modified to support multiple packages providing > > the same service. Otherwise, it is impossible for a package which > > provides a common service (and also conflicts with another provider > > of that service) to use insserv without manual intervention. See > > #606588 and #535442 for examples of bugs caused by the inability to > > support multiple packages providing the same service. > > This is already supported using virtual facilities, and not duplicate > provides. See <URL: http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts > and > <URL: http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DebianVirtualFacilities > > for more information.
This requires coordination between packages and unnecessarily increases the maintenance burden of LSB init script headers. What's the reasoning behind disallowing multiple packages to provide the same service, anyway? Don Armstrong -- life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis -- e.e. cummings "Four VII" _is 5_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
