[PATCH] base-files: sysupgrade: include uci-defaults script disabling services

[Paul D]

On 2024-02-15 15:42, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> On 14.02.2024 21:50, Paul D wrote:
>> Would services not do better to be tracked within uci and its config 
>> files in /etc/config?
> 
> Well, it's a part of a mess we have in our init/config code. It was only
> last week that Jo was discussing it with Ansuel. In short we have:
> 1. Packages with no UCI config option for enabling/disabling
> 2. Packages with "enable"
> 3. Packages with "enabled"
> 4. Packages with "disable"
> 5. Packages with "disabled"
> 
> I'm pretty sure most users are used to enabling/disabling services
> using UCI config option but not all of them have such possibility. That
> is the case my change is meant to deal with.
> 
> An alternative would be to make sure every package uses "enabled" (or
> "disabled") UCI option. Should we do that?
> 

Is 'on' or 'off' in the config perhaps simpler? I think it avoids the 
linguistic differences of past participle vs present simple. (Sometimes 
this distinction is important to have.)

Otherwise 'en/disabled' is a good paradigm to encourage in configs.