| 1 |
On Friday 02 May 2003 03:23 pm, Wouter van Kleunen wrote: |
| 2 |
> For example firewall generators generate init scripts. And sysvinit |
| 3 |
> frontends (KDE has a frontend) uses it. I think also mandrake has a |
| 4 |
> frontend for selecting which services get booted. I dunno about suse or |
| 5 |
> red hat. I don't say these distro's should immediatly start using this |
| 6 |
> init. But your claim that only 1 program parses these files is not true. |
| 7 |
|
| 8 |
I'm not sure if those are particularly good counter examples. I'm not totally |
| 9 |
familiar with KDE's frontend, but I was, at a time, familiar with the |
| 10 |
Linuxconf equivalent. |
| 11 |
|
| 12 |
Sysvinit frontends probably do not actually look inside the init scripts; all |
| 13 |
they care about is the filename. The menus for selecting which service to run |
| 14 |
at boot are really asking which script files you want in which runlevels. |
| 15 |
Most frontends serve only to manipulate the symlinks. So the script's format |
| 16 |
is still parsed by only one program. |
| 17 |
|
| 18 |
As for firewall generators...what sort of generated script are you talking |
| 19 |
about? I'd imagine you mean that the program merely generates a sequence of |
| 20 |
iptables commands which initialize the tables correctly, since iptables |
| 21 |
doesn't have a file format of it's own. I'm not sure how wrapping the |
| 22 |
sequence of commands in XML markup is accomplishing anything.... |
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
That said, don't take my criticisms too harshly. I think there's much that can |
| 25 |
be done to improve Gentoo's init system (despite it's being quite good, |
| 26 |
compared to other systems, at present), and I think your direction is |
| 27 |
interesting. But there are a number of things in your approach which give me |
| 28 |
pause. |
| 29 |
|
| 30 |
Good luck in any case, |
| 31 |
Evan |
| 32 |
|
| 33 |
-- |
| 34 |
gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
Archives