Roberto Ragusa wrote:
- having control of the mixer
The KMix ALSA backend is not going away.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KDE_PulseAudio_Integration#Releas...
I need to change firewalls rules and routing rules in the middle of
the
init scripts, because I have a multihomed internet connection and remote
filesystems and I need the firewall closed and then opened in a way which
is dependent on the IP I got from the ISP
Ugh! Are you sure there's no better solution?!
and I need a "sleep 5" in a proper place because the ADSL
modem is still
booting its firmware
This is a completely broken workaround for a bug somewhere. The driver needs
to wait for the firmware to be loaded before reporting ready status, and
network startup should not report being complete before the driver is ready.
We need to get the bug fixed so this works out of the box for everyone!
"sleep" is always a bad and unreliable way to do synchronization. Plus,
you're blocking the whole system startup for 5 seconds rather than just what
depends on networking, because neither SysVInit nor Upstart's SysVInit
compatibility mode are capable of parallel booting (whereas systemd is, even
in SysVInit compatibility mode thanks to LSB initscript headers, but even
more so with native configuration which Lennart is writing).
and I want some output printed to /dev/tty1 during boot
You can probably set up simple systemd config files for that using the
dependency system, but… ugh!
and I want some filesystems to be mounted with "mount
&" because they take
time but only contain data not needed to boot
This point is moot with a parallel init system such as systemd! ALL mounts
in systemd are background tasks, and autofs magic is used to block accesses
to mountpoints which are not ready until they become ready.
Kevin Kofler