Boilerplate of extremely varying quality, no less. A bad init.d script can ruin a whole day, and in my experience most packages not included in a base system ar

Boilerplate of extremely varying quality, no less. A bad init.d script can ruin a whole day, and in my experience most packages not included in a base system are ticking timebombs to a problem. I wouldn't describe them as simple at all. What init.d/rc.d scripts amount to is pushing all the pid0 init work out to every individual service and making them figure it out on their own.