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On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 19:09 +0100, Mike Auty wrote: |
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> On 23/08/10 18:26, Olivier Crête wrote: |
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> > |
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> > Other distributions are going one step further and are going for |
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> > shell-free boot. We should follow that lead. |
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> > |
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> Why? Presumably they're doing it by writing programs that do their own |
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> parsing and executing, which means they'll need a maintainer just for |
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> that program and they'll have to go through a few iterations to get the |
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> initial bugs out, and then people will have to learn how to use the |
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> different-yet-again language that goes with it. Why not rely on a |
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> prebuilt parser that devs already have to know to look after ebuilds? |
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Systemd uses ini style files for configuration (and symlinks). So there |
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really isn't much of a parser in there. And obviously, they're going |
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through some bugfixing right now, so when F14/F15 are out there, we can |
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just take their complete solution ;) |
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Olivier Crête |
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tester@g.o |
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