Lets make a summary.
What functionality would be good to have in FreeBSD that doesn't exist:
1) "runlevels" with arbitrary names. runlevel change would start and stop
right services.
2) exploit startup parallelism.
What we do not want to change:
- file structure which is simple. one file in rc.d/ per service and one
global config file (rc.conf)
- anything else that would make things more complicated.
As for
1) i propose in rc.conf an option to put "NO", "YES" (or ALL) or runlevel
list for each service or runlevel exclusion list for service.
examples:
service1_enable="YES"
service2_enable="NO"
service3_enable="foolevel maintenance"
service4_enable="YES -foolevel" (or ALL -funkyrunlevel)
name of default runlevel may be "full" or "multiuser"
service 1 will always work, service 2 never, service 3 only at runlevels
"foolevel" and "maintenance", service4 with any runlevel except
"foolevel".
still single rc.conf, not much bigger in practice.
2) no change in rc.d/* scripts and rc.conf, but change in scripts.
If everyone agree i think i may write this new scripts.
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