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From: Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>
Subject: Re: Network configuration and bash
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:49:16 +0000
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:20:54 +0100
Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> wrote:
> If that's what you want, don't use bash in the first place. I would
> agree that using bash for parsing is a pain in the but Daniel is
> right in that you're not going to be able to maintain posix
> compatibility. If you find an acceptable way to add the functionality
> to the network configuration files, it is ok, but sacrificing
> usability over an unmaintainable improvement doesn't work.

Provided that /bin/sh is /bin/bash then we can maintain the config_*
directive. 
> 
> If you want to speed up boot, the dependency generation is probably
> what's eating most time.

And that was solved in baselayout-1.13 where we already have the dep
resolver in C.

Thanks

Roy
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