Fedora Goals -- LSB-compliant/ideal init for FC5+

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Jun 6 20:55:04 UTC 2005


Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> (thebs413 at earthlink.net) said: 
> I'm a long-time lurker (and long-time general annoyance) to many, but I
> would _love_ to start to tackle a fully LSB-compliant/ideal init with
> dependency checking, etc... for FC5+.  I probably force bash (and even
> legacy Bourne sh on non-Linux) far more than I should (although I'll
> break out the Perl and, gasp, C when needbe), so I think this is right
> up my part-time (maybe 10 hours/week) alley if I could be any
> assistance to the team.

Well, there are some plans here. They don't usually involve bash,
though, and generally consist of migrating to a completely different
framework, with support for legacy installation concerns such
as LSB compatibility and the current init-style scripts.

> So count me in (and who's currently working on this?)!

No one, just yet. :)

Bill




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