On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 11:54:59 -0700
capercally.bleery670@??? wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 05:45:54PM +0200, tito via Dng wrote:
>
> > many scripts have already been moved from the original packages to
> > orphan-init-scripts and i don't think things will improve but rather
> > get worse with more scripts removed/deleted in the near future, next
> > the cron files will disappear and then the files in /etc/default and
> > in the end SysVinit will be cancelled.
>
> crontabs can be replaced by hand written ones. That could actually be
> liberating, as I find myself rewriting or disabling the provided ones
> after each new installation. The provided ones are much too nanny
> state for me, plus they don't handle the situation well when there's
> no mail daemon, which is the usual case on non-servers for me.
>
> The question of course is if the cron package will exist at all. I
> think the Debian source package is now the upstream, is this correct?
> So to save cron someone / some team would have to take over its
> maintenance. I may be willing, if the need arises, but I think that's
> still at least 2 Debian releases away.
>
> What is systemd's replacement for /etc/default/* ?
>

The registry :-) like windoze.

Ciao,
Tito