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From: Ian Smith <ian.c.smith@btinternet.com>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/init.d
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:33:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C8D30B1.1020309@btinternet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1015875432.13991.32.camel@wubble.Genuity.COM

Ric Mesier wrote:
> Yannick,
> 	I appreciate your argument, but you can't equate a start-up script with
> a binary. Yes, the binary is critical but it isn't likely to be
> custom-altered like a start-up script might be. If I emerge package, I
> expect the binaries to be altered. If I created a customer rc script,
> then I want to be the one to clobber it, not have the emerge clobber it.

You can equate them in the sense that they execute things, in fact the 
only sense in which they are config files is by virtue of them being 
under /etc !

A cynic might even suggest this is a circular argument . . .

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-11 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-11 17:48 [gentoo-dev] /etc/init.d Yannick Koehler
2002-03-11 17:52 ` Matt Beland
2002-03-11 17:54 ` Ric Mesier
2002-03-11 18:43   ` Benjamin Ritcey
2002-03-11 18:45     ` Ric Mesier
2002-03-11 18:47       ` Ric Mesier
2002-03-11 19:55   ` Ian Smith
2002-03-11 18:02 ` Craig M. Reece
2002-03-11 18:16   ` Yannick Koehler
2002-03-11 18:52     ` mbutcher
2002-03-11 19:05       ` Craig M. Reece
2002-03-11 21:11       ` Yannick Koehler
2002-03-11 18:54     ` Matt Beland
2002-03-11 19:43       ` Martin Schlemmer
2002-03-11 20:44       ` Yannick Koehler
2002-03-11 21:10         ` Martin Schlemmer
2002-03-11 22:16           ` Matt Beland
2002-03-11 23:28             ` Yannick Koehler
2002-03-11 18:45   ` Per Wigren
2002-03-11 19:06     ` Craig M. Reece
2002-03-11 19:35     ` Yannick Koehler
2002-03-11 18:17 ` Yannick Koehler
2002-03-11 18:42   ` Matt Beland
2002-03-11 19:32     ` Yannick Koehler
2002-03-11 19:37       ` Ric Mesier
2002-03-11 21:13         ` Yannick Koehler
2002-03-11 22:07           ` Defresne Sylvain
2002-03-11 22:42             ` Ian Smith
2002-03-11 22:49               ` Defresne Sylvain
2002-03-11 22:55               ` Martin Schlemmer
2002-03-11 23:12                 ` Ian Smith
2002-03-11 23:29             ` Yannick Koehler
2002-03-11 22:28           ` Ian Smith
2002-03-11 22:33         ` Ian Smith [this message]
2002-03-11 19:50       ` Martin Schlemmer
2002-03-11 19:56       ` Matt Beland
2002-03-11 21:25         ` Yannick Koehler
2002-03-11 18:41 ` Thilo Bangert
2002-03-11 19:49 ` Joachim Blaabjerg
2002-03-11 21:15   ` Yannick Koehler
2002-03-11 21:03 ` Tod M. Neidt
2002-03-11 21:30   ` Yannick Koehler
2002-03-11 16:26     ` Bob Phan
2002-03-11 21:39       ` Craig M. Reece
2002-03-11 16:42         ` Bob Phan
2002-03-11 22:33           ` [gentoo-dev] /etc/init.d the real question!? Corvus Corax
2002-03-11 23:33             ` Yannick Koehler
2002-03-12 11:03           ` [gentoo-dev] /etc/init.d Craig M. Reece

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