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From: Patrick McLean <chutzpah@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:44:06
Message-Id: 4C72C162.5080309@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo by "Olivier Crête"
1 On 23/08/10 02:28 PM, Olivier Crête wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 19:09 +0100, Mike Auty wrote:
3 >> On 23/08/10 18:26, Olivier Crête wrote:
4 >>>
5 >>> Other distributions are going one step further and are going for
6 >>> shell-free boot. We should follow that lead.
7 >>>
8 >> Why? Presumably they're doing it by writing programs that do their own
9 >> parsing and executing, which means they'll need a maintainer just for
10 >> that program and they'll have to go through a few iterations to get the
11 >> initial bugs out, and then people will have to learn how to use the
12 >> different-yet-again language that goes with it. Why not rely on a
13 >> prebuilt parser that devs already have to know to look after ebuilds?
14 >
15 > Systemd uses ini style files for configuration (and symlinks). So there
16 > really isn't much of a parser in there. And obviously, they're going
17 > through some bugfixing right now, so when F14/F15 are out there, we can
18 > just take their complete solution ;)
19 >
20
21 What are you actual complaints about openrc? What is wrong with using
22 shell for bootup, it works, it's fast (especially with openrc's ability
23 to be executed with dash) and _extremely_ flexible.