Re: /etc/rc.d/ as a bunch of symlinks

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost> wrote:
>   Hello,
>
> matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
>
>> This morning I was trying to think about the use-case of replacing an
>> in-tree component with a pkgsrc version.
>>
>> In my case I use pkgsrc postfix instead of base postfix.
>>
>> Right now I do this:
>> cp /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/postfix /etc/rc.d/postfix
>>
>> which replacing the provided postfix.
>>
>> -----
>>
>> I think we should move the existing rc.d scripts to somewhere else and
>> then use symlinks to manage rc.d/
>
> I don't think this is that useful.
>
> If you invest time into managing replacing parts of the base system,
> it is not actually hard for you to invest time into doing such trivial
> thing that you propose. Doing it for everyone makes system more complex
> for everyone without any benefit.
>
> Besides, you can replace postfix less intrusively by redefining
> few variables in rc.conf (e.g. "postfix_command", "spooletcdir",
> and "postconf").
>
>
> --
> BCE HA MOPE!
>


Does that also directly deal with the case of executing /etc/rc.d/postfix ?