David Niklas via Dng <dng@???> writes:
> Hello,
> I installed Devuan Daedalus. I installed some services I'm not intending
> to use yet. So, I booted and ran:
>
> rc-update -a del SERVICE
>
> for each of them. I then performed a clean shutdown and reboot. And
> everything I deleted from all runlevels are still added!
>
> How can I change the init services to be started?

The simple, traditional way would be to rename the start script, eg
(example for bind):

cd /etc/init.d
mv named named_

The services than won't be started automatically anymore but you can
stil start it manually if you so desire.