[systemd-devel] systemd numbers for Debian Sid/unstable system

[Michael Biebl]

2012/7/3 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>:
> On Sat, 30.06.12 13:47, Paul Menzel (paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net) wrote:
>

>>
>> Well, no. Debian still ships an init.d script which reads
>> `/etc/default/pulseaudio` and there system mode is disabled by default.
>> So I masked this one too.
>>
>>     $ sudo systemctl mask pulseaudio.service
>
> Hmm, dounds a bit strange that on Debian you enable/disable that script
> via a file in /etc/default, even though sysv already has a mechanism for
> this, which is the done by update-rcd, right? Sounds like two levels of
> turning things off where one would be sufficient and less confusing...

Those /etc/default/<foo> files with ENABLE/DISABLE switches are a plague.

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/initscripts-ng-devel/2007-June/000461.html

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