Init : someone could comment this ?

Casey Dahlin cjdahlin at ncsu.edu
Sun Jan 6 19:34:14 UTC 2008


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 10:44 -0500, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
>   
>> On Jan 6, 2008 5:36 AM, Enrico Scholz
>> <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
>>     
>>> An initsystem which requires depbloat like python or perl is completely
>>> unacceptably.
>>>       
>> Bash is not depbloat, but bash + awk + grep + any other userspace
>> tools shows alot of dep bloat. 
>>     
> You will want to make yourself familiar with POSIX.
>
>   
>>  Since python is installed on most
>> machines,
>>     
> Only because RH/Fedora's infrastructure forces users to install it.
>
>   
>>  and almost always putting at least some code in shared
>> memory space, asking for Python in particular is not unreasonable.
>>     
> I could not disagree more - To me any init-script system requiring
> anything outside of what POSIX requires is a mis-conception and flawed
> design.
>
>   
Is there a reason for this? It still sounds like a whole lot of "PURGE 
THE IMPURE!!!" to me.

--CJD




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