Re: Ports with daemons on uninstall...

In article <20130714191725.GA30708@stack.nl>, jilles@stack.nl writes:

>Apart from the annoyance of the restarts, automatic stopping and
>starting is probably the best policy for having things "just work". Some
>daemons will crash or otherwise stop being useful when their files have
>been deleted or replaced, and the new rc.d script might be unable to
>stop the old daemon.

Strongly agreed -- and it's what other operating systems do, either by
policy or by convention.

-GAWollman

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