Re: [gentoo-dev] Init replacement

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Friday 02 May 2003 21:23, Wouter van Kleunen wrote:
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> For example firewall generators generate init scripts. And sysvinit
> frontends (KDE has a frontend) uses it. I think also mandrake has a
> frontend for selecting which services get booted. I dunno about suse or
> red hat. I don't say these distro's should immediatly start using this
> init. But your claim that only 1 program parses these files is not true.

Firewall generators generate scripts to stard firewalls. As long as they just 
output a simple script, any kind of init system can be used to execute them. 
selecting frontends do not generate scripts. They do not look into them, they 
just make symlinks

> The same goes for all these init methods. Every distro uses a different
> init method

That's true, I guess its basically because the s??[name] way sucks in 
combination with tools (as there are only 100 positions, and there is no 
standardized way to know at which position a package should be 
started/stoped. 

Paul

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