New profiles spec

[Alex Smith]

Giuseppe Ciotta wrote:
> On 6/1/07, Alex Smith <alex at alex-smith.me.uk> wrote:
> 
>> >  /etc/init/profiles.d/no-x:
>> >    enable *
>> >    disable gdm
>> >    disable kdm
>> >    disable xdm
>> >    disable ldm
> 
> Hi,
> I think packages should be able to deal with profiles at installation
> time, Specifying jobs to {dis,en}able in a file makes adding/removing
> of jobs painful.
> 
> An idea could be:
> 
> profiles/single/disable_all
> profiles/single/enable/sh
> 
> profiles/no-x/enable_all
> profiles/no-x/disable/gdm
> profiles/no-x/disable/kdm
> profiles/no-x/disable/wdm
> 
> Files could be empty of course.
> Files named disable_all and enable_all have a special meaning.
> 
> I think it would be also nice to have the "provides" keyword in the
> job definition, so one could use:
> 
> profiles/no-x/enable_all
> profiles/no-x/disable/display_manager
> 
> What do you think?
> SysVish? Yes, maybe.

Yes. We had a discussion about this earlier in IRC. It's quite easy to 
do this with package installation - just have a tool to manage the 
profiles, like chkconfig with sysv.

Thanks,
Alex
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Alex Smith
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