On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, H.J. Lu wrote:
>Symlinks may be a little messy. But it does provide support for run level
>very nicely. A single text file or one per package is very bad. Since there
>may be dependencies among packages, we have to start them in certain
>order and new packages may be installed at any time. Symlinks works quite
>well here. It is very convenient for packages with rc scripts. I really
>appreciate that feature while working on knfsd.
I'm not sure about other distributions, but RedHat has a "chkconfig" command
which makes management of all of those symlinks quite easy. With chkconfig, I,
as a user, don't even have to really know about them.
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