RE: [gentoo-dev] init script guidelines

["Eric Brown" <ebrown@magbank.com>]

Not everyone can patch them, more people would be capable of writing
half-baked hacks that resolve most of the issues.

Anyway I guess the new baselayout sounds promising here.

> My point is that Snort and Apache are not alone in this, so I suppose
> quite a few upstream developers just disagree with us on what proper
> initialization means.  Why should our users suffer?

They shouldn't, but that doesn't mean implementing some half-baked hack
to resolve the situation.  It might be better to instead patch the
daemon in question and send the patches upstream.  Upstream developers
(usually) are much more willing to make changes when you've done the
work for them... ;]



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