Hello Pierre, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe the problem here is somehow very generic, and that using a > virtual package like proposed in the bug report (#500176) doesn't scale > well. Especially for dns daemons. Packaging two of them myself (nsd3 > that is an authoritative server only, and pdnsd that is a caching daemon > only) I can tell the virtual package solution would be a mess: I _want_ > to be able to use nsd3 _and_ pdnsd on the same machine (I actually do > since the former binds to the external IPs only and pdnsd to 127.0.0.1)
> Anyways I think there is a more general solution to find and here are a > path. The fact that Debian starts every single service on first install > is something that we strive for, but causes some grief for sysadmins > that don't wish to open an unprotected service before they configured > it. It also generates the issue we're disussing. If the idea of update-rc.d disable|reenable[1] gets implemented, it would be enough to disable a service after first installation. update-rc.d could do that. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/09/msg00623.html Bye, Jörg. -- Die NASA brauchte 12 Jahre um einen Kugelschreiber zu entwickeln, der kopfüber, in der Schwerelosigkeit und unter Wasser schreiben kann. Die Russen benutzten einfach einen Bleistift … -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]