On 2 Mar 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > Of course, a well written init.d file is a no-op when the > package itself is removed, so it does no harm to retain the file to > keep configuration values ... > > If, for some packages, that is not the case, bugs should be > filed against the errant packages.
In the case of the lpd and lprng packages, both of them provide /usr/sbin/lpd and test for its existance in their startup script. So if you install lpd, remove it and then install lprng, /usr/sbin/lpd get started twice at boot time. Should they test for the existance of something that is unique for the package? I doubt /usr/doc/<pkg> would be appropriate. Wat would be good? Remco
