IDEA: Shortening boot-time

[David Nielsen]

On fre, 2004-07-23 at 21:16 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> David Nielsen writes:
> 
> > Yeah, what ever happened to Seth's python based init thingy, it sounded
> > like such a cool idea when it was presented, but then there was no
> > follow up. Seth seems to have a lot of good ideas concerning usability,
> > and making UNIX not suck, we should all pay more attention to him.
> 
> Nobody really wanted to dump all of python into /bin.
> 
> $ rpm -q -i python
> […]
> Size        : 21682516 
> 

Bah harddrives are cheap.. unless you are running some kind of odd flash
based embedded system or another kind of limited setup depending on
python in this manner shouldn't be a problem, and if you do, I highly
doubt you would be running a vanilla Fedora Core.

- David