RE: lsbinstall (was: Announce: LSB 3.0 RC1 is out)

>> - init
>> All LSB 1.x and 2.x complient Linuxes have /etc/init.d/ to which 
>> LSB-[12].x-complient init scripts have to be installed.
>> I don't see any reason to change this in LSB 3. This prevents 
>> package-based tracking of the init script, creates extra files (the 
>> not-yet-lsbinstalled init file has to be somewhere) and 
>makes LSB-1.x- 
>> and 2.x-complient applications incompatible with 3.x. (For 
>config file 
>> vs. not, see below.)
>> CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME THE ADVANTAGE OF lsbinstall COMPARED TO 
>> INSTALLING IN /etc/init.d/ DIRECTLY?
>> (If there is a good reason, I don't mind "lsbinstall -t init". ;)
>
>I can also only see problems with the new approach. The biggest is,
>that this file is no longer under the control of a package manager.

We were forced in the LSB 2 timeframe to agree to allow
software to be installed in other methods than using the
native package manager, and lsbinstall was partly a way
to handle that. It may be that allowing that was a mistake.
Would you guys consider it acceptable to have files copied
into /etc/init.d by such non-package-manager installs?

>> - profile
>> Similar to init: What is the advantage of copying the file around 
>> instead of putting it into /etc/profile.d/ directly (using 
>the LANANA 
>> name space)?
>
>I see no advantage, too, only the same problems as with the init
>scripts. Somebody has to cleanup the system, and now the package
>creator and not the package manager is responsible for this. This
>did never work in the past, why should it now?
>
>And the package manager has a lot of additional checks and 
>knowledge about the system to detect, avoid and solve conflicts.
>Should we really reimplement it again in lsbinstall?


So it would be both of your preferences that:
(a) we clearly document that /etc/init.d and /etc/profile.d
exist and are required for conforming distros, and are managed by
namespace rules
(b) packages should install needed files directly into
those directories

Is that correct?