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On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:35:36 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> >> Don't forget boot-time X-based animation, too. That's an |
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> >> extraordinarily common feature of mainstream desktop distributions. |
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> >> And there will be other things, I'm sure. |
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> > I don't get involved with those, but I'd hope something intended to be |
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> > run so early would have minimal dependencies, if any. |
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> There's a pretty firm distinction between what things get used for, |
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> and what they're intended for. The udev developers presumably were |
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> reacting to this when they decided to support an "anything goes" |
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> policy regarding plugscript behavior. |
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> And while I'm generally the kind of person to find unintended (but |
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> perfectly compatible with their spec) uses for things, I don't figure |
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> on being one to do so in my init sequence. That said, someone else |
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> will. |
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I know what you mean, but here we are discussing something being used for |
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its intended purpose. If a bootsplash program is not designed to work |
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well a the start of the boot process, you have to wonder what it will be |
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good for. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Electrocution, n.: |
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Burning at the stake with all the modern improvements. |