Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Craig M. Reece" <craigthulu@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/init.d
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:08:37
Message-Id: 20020311190517.GA4392@littlethulu.craigthulu.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/init.d by mbutcher
1 On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:52:55AM -0700, mbutcher spoke thusly:
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3 snippage...
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5 > To me, the attractive part about the way it works now is that it is simple
6 > and straightforward. I feel like I am in control of things when I update a
7 > package. It took me (and probably most people on this list) a minimal amount
8 > of time to learn the scheme, and now I rue the days when I used to spend
9 > hours debugging problems in Red Hat init scripts (only to have my fixes
10 > overwritten the next time I upgraded with RPM).
11 >
12 more snippage...
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14 This is one of the main reasons I went with LFS and now Gentoo instead
15 of the other distros.