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On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:40:27 -0400 |
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"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 01:18:24AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote |
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> > I'm not sure where you're going with this. We're discussing an init |
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> > system and good, simple ways to start services. App maintainers are |
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> > going to continue to do whatever they feel they ought to do, some |
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> > might write the systemd files, some might not - that is what already |
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> > happens. Someone has to write it and what goes in it depends on what |
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> > the app code does, not the other way round. |
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> The point I'm making is that if the initialization is moved into the |
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> binary, then the binary will have to be patched/modified/whatever. |
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> There's already somebody with a systemd overlay. Assuming that the |
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> initialization code gets shoved into the binary, how does it |
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> simultaneously support openrc/systemd/linux/bsd/Sun/HPUX/etc/etc? The |
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> only realistic answer I see is leaving the init code to the distro |
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> maintainer. We don't expect the upstream for sshd or any other |
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> software to write Gentoo-specific stuff like ebuilds. Whey should |
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> they be expected to write Gentoo-specific initscripts? |
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Fair enough |
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> > As for the last question, I really have no idea where you're taking |
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> > this. I don't know the answer, I've never been a maintainer in that |
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> > position. Being the arrogant shit that I am, I reckon I would |
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> > probably tell the user to piss off and I don't support hobby crap. |
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> > But hey, that's just what I think I might say while sitting here on |
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> > my couch. |
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> So you're saying you wouldn't have supported... |
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No, you're saying that you believe that you think I would say that |
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based on some extrapolation of I don't know what. |
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I said no such thing. |
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I said that I don't know what I would do |
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Let's not get too carried away with Linus's little project being |
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representative of anything. It's a fluke. There are 100s of other hobby |
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systems that went nowhere. |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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