Distros
I have to wonder if people that develop for one distro ever try another? It would seem that they do not. No wonder there are so many.
AFAICT Debian’s init system hasn’t changed in 100 years. It’s essentially a series of directories with symlinks to the /etc/init.d scripts. To disable them you can either take away the executable bit or at your discretion unlink them. Gentoos init system using various tools like rc-update is elegant and easy to use.
I am not saying that Gentoo does everything right, I found it to be annoying from time to time as well.
**queue dream sequence**
“If I had a distro I would seek to take the best parts of all the distros and make an uber distro”
**end**
Seriously though, there may even be a better way than the way gentoo handles it. ( and to be fair there is probably some gnome GUI tool in Ubuntu to handle this, but who uses Gnome?!? ) And this “Not invented here” crap is lame.
Gentoo has one of the nicest init command interfaces of any of them, in my opinion. I would like to be able to have a Gentoo environment with a apt system on top for package management (or get Gentoo to improve their available pre-compiled packages).
you just don’t realize that debian has update-rc.d to handle all that.
“not invented here”… hmmm that would have to be what gentoo said when they decided not to use update-rc.d, eh? and that’s what they said when they rejected redhat’s chkconfig, too, right?
There is a difference between seeing a better way of doing something and haveing the “not invented here” mentaility. And you’re right I don’t know about update-rc.d…that is why I put AFAICT…As Far As I Can Tell.