plans for system-config-services, was: early-gdm redux

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 23:11 +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote:

> Now what I really don't want to do is deal with service type transitions
> (NMD gets stopped -> network-based services get normal SysVinit services
> again) as I don't see real value behind it. If network-based services
> need a daemon to run properly then it better ran. It's not really a new
> situation -- if xinetd doesn't run, xinetd-based services don't get
> started. Just as with every other basic building block of the system.
> 
> Makes sense?

As long as it will be able to support both traditional networking setups
(for servers) and NM-based setups, it should be fine. I don't think
going back and forth between these two at runtime is very interesting.