[Fedora-packaging] daemons vs services

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Nov 17 15:45:15 UTC 2009


Orcan Ogetbil (oget.fedora at gmail.com) said: 
> > By daemons, I meant more in the lines of those programs that run in
> > the background, but do not put an initscript in /etc.
> > Userspace daemons for instance. e.g. jack, pulseaudio type daemons...
> 
> Ping? Another example would be gnome-settings-daemon. Don't they need
> to be killed when they are uninstalled?

If you are removing the running desktop out from under itself, I suspect
this is the least of your problems.

Bill




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