From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OnblK-0007um-KS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:28:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AA73E0933; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:28:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE5FAE0827 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:28:33 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Received: from TesterServ.TesterNet ([70.83.102.254]) by VL-MO-MR006.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0L7M00DNXBBCPVF0@VL-MO-MR006.ip.videotron.ca> for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:28:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mtlxpqak-1176055545.sdsl.bell.ca ([70.25.46.249] helo=[192.168.1.117]) by TesterServ.TesterNet with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Onbku-0007iQ-OM for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:28:24 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo From: Olivier =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Cr=EAte?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-reply-to: <4C72B973.2090505@gentoo.org> References: <201007041630.07537.polynomial-c@gentoo.org> <20100704133949.0cda055a@gentoo.org> <4C30EA89.4020806@gentoo.org> <4C314233.8030809@gentoo.org> <1282575945.23781.35.camel@gdartigu.lan.rep.sj> <1282584393.4313.6.camel@TesterTop4> <4C72B973.2090505@gentoo.org> Content-type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-MgQcICZ3WlS9jvNJcvtA" Organization: Gentoo Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:28:16 -0400 Message-id: <1282588096.4313.12.camel@TesterTop4> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.2 (2.30.2-4.fc13) X-Archives-Salt: c67d7822-a00c-4387-9a22-aa267b50cca4 X-Archives-Hash: 9a44227d1d2df0fb3db021ea62c5e51b --=-MgQcICZ3WlS9jvNJcvtA Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 19:09 +0100, Mike Auty wrote: > On 23/08/10 18:26, Olivier Cr=C3=AAte wrote: > >=20 > > Other distributions are going one step further and are going for > > shell-free boot. We should follow that lead. > >=20 >=20 > Why? Presumably they're doing it by writing programs that do their own > parsing and executing, which means they'll need a maintainer just for > that program and they'll have to go through a few iterations to get the > initial bugs out, and then people will have to learn how to use the > different-yet-again language that goes with it. Why not rely on a > prebuilt parser that devs already have to know to look after ebuilds? Systemd uses ini style files for configuration (and symlinks). So there really isn't much of a parser in there. And obviously, they're going through some bugfixing right now, so when F14/F15 are out there, we can just take their complete solution ;) --=20 Olivier Cr=C3=AAte tester@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer --=-MgQcICZ3WlS9jvNJcvtA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkxyvcAACgkQHTiOWk7ZoruihgCdGYB6ee03P/+nmMTtZNHCz8WT /WMAnjrj+fT9db9PYFHzIC9iMJtKUyBb =WCGh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-MgQcICZ3WlS9jvNJcvtA--