:
:Matthew Dillon wrote:
:> I don't think it's necessary that we support service removal
:> immediately, but if we were to do it I would suggest something like
:> '-<servicename> ...' in /etc/services to remove a service entirely.
:
:Oof. This misses the (common) case where an upgrade adds a service I
:don't want. I didn't remove it because I was unaware of it before.
:
:I'm somewhat fond of the way portage handles this (or, at least, is
:supposed to): modify an example configuration file which is used for
:reference only. /etc/make.conf, for example, is never touched;
:upgrading portage modifies /etc/make.conf.example.
:
:Dave
:
/etc/services is just a naming system. It doesn't actually have any
effect on anything other then converting a name to a number, so I
don't see any reason to remove service names that aren't needed. Why
would one care?
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>