Solve the init script issue

[Kok, Auke]

Moritz Heiber wrote:
> As many of you have noticed, the lunar-init introduction isn't very
> easy going .. especially on users that do not follow our website or
> mailinglist announcements. I've been going through the steps with Auke
> before I commited the update and he explicitly required it to not bring
> along any sort of migration hooks or tweaks. And I partly agreed with
> him on that issue. Migration code is just wrong, ugly and most of the
> time its unnecessary.
> 
> Yet, in this case I see my opinion altered since the reports of several
> users that weren't able to catch up with either of the mailinglists or
> our website and thus ended up with systems rendered completely unusable
> are quite clear.
> 
> Yesterday night I proposed to add 'lin -c lunar-init' in the respected
> POST_INSTALL scripts to both modules that remove their init scripts,
> e2fsprogs and net-tools, during the latest update. I haven't gotten a
> word back and frankly I consider this a very important issue.
> 
> I know that our focus is supposed to stay on the server area with our
> users checking in regularly in order to catch "our word". But that just
> ain't the case.
> 
> We have a lot of semi-professional desktop users. They know what
> they're doing and they're enjoying the stability and speed of our work.
> Yet, they hardly ever read our mailinglists or our website (which I
> really wouldn't require to be running Lunar Linux anyway). Besides,
> with the recent addition of XOrg and Xfce4 to the latest ISOs I think
> we're moving away from the whole server purpose and focus (it leaves me
> puzzled and thus frustrated actually why we still maintain a kind of
> BOFH attiude t'wards the average Joe user).
> 
> So, the changes would just be the bare minimum to keep an updated
> system running .. while it is also most effective. It has become common
> practise .. I'm seeing a lot of modules being recompiled in
> POST_INSTALLs and I wanted to carry out this important issue to all of
> you .. since that is what we are .. a team.
> 
> Please express your opinion.

go for it.

Auke