On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 07:50:44PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>
> Whether /etc/rc.local will be run (and on what run levels) is, IMHO, a
> matter for *your* init system to decide. If your init system wants to
> cater to a decades long tradition of running /etc/rc.local at system
> startup, it should declare a dependency on initscripts or provide an
> /etc/rc.local itself.
>
> If you want to use /etc/rc.local to tweak things, *you* should install
> an init system that runs it (and Devuan's `init` package should list it
> as a preferred alternative ;-)
>
> Any init systems that deviate from age old traditions, should, ideally,
> clearly document that. If they don't, cluebat their maintainers ;-)
>
> And for the masses that don't know what /etc/rc.local is all about?
> Well, they wouldn't know either way, so are pretty much unaffected by
> all of this anyway.

There's no need for an init package to impose an /etc/rc.local, except
as a clue to the clueless. It's enough for it to execute it if it's
there.

-- hendrik