New profiles spec

[Giuseppe Ciotta]

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.