Re: [gentoo-dev] Init replacement

[Terje Kvernes]

Wouter van Kleunen <kleunen@××××××××××.nl> writes:

> I wrote a new init system that has numerous advantages over the old script
> based init system. Please have a look at:
>
> pinit.sf.net
>
> I am a gentoo user, and i converted my scripts -> services for my
> system.  I would like to have feedback on this system. Please try it
> out on your system (safely from your home directory).

  converting init-scripts to XML is a scary process.  init-scripts
  should IMHO be human readable, as atomic as possible, and testable
  without depending on much more than having a generic shell.  in
  addition to verboseness and lack of readability, XML makes it
  "interesting" to integrate more complex scripts, like autofs.

  yes, XML is easier to generate for a machine, but you generally
  don't generate init-scripts, if you do you probably build them from
  templates, which aren't XML friendly either.  

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Terje

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