On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > [...] > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > > You are hereby excused. *Nothing* has an S* in more than one > > level. A package is meant to be at a certain run level and higher. A > > level 3 package is started at run level 3, killed in run level 2, and > > at *no* other level. See how this works? > > There is one thing that I dont see yet. There might be a necessity to > introduce parallel routes, e.g. you would want to have a runlevel that > starts xdm, and one that starts networking deamons for machines that > actually are on a network. But there is no intrinsic order between > these things. My machine at home is not connected to any network, which > means that certain daemons are not necessary, even if I do want to run > X. Other people may want to connect to the network without having to > go through a runlevel that starts xdm. Now how is this tackled? > > Eric Meijer
True this would take some planning. Agreed it has it limitations. However, it doesn't even work this well currently, at least in Debian GNU/Linux. Our current approach is just plain broken. Even if you go through the trouble of fixing it, it re-breaks with every package installation (that installs a start/stop script). I would just like it to work "as expected" and we can go from there. Adding enhancements to the system while keeping it backward compatable is attractive, but not as easy as it sounds. Cheers, -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
