From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_REJECT, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from gadolinium.btinternet.com (gadolinium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.111]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C095200B260 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:35:50 -0600 (CST) Received: from host62-7-107-96.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([62.7.107.96] helo=beaky) by gadolinium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #8) id 16kYLJ-0003cP-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:32:33 +0000 Received: from sparky ([192.168.254.4] helo=btinternet.com) by beaky with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16kYLX-0006D0-00 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:32:47 +0000 Message-ID: <3C8D30B1.1020309@btinternet.com> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:33:21 +0000 From: Ian Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020216 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/init.d References: <3C8CEDD8.2000907@colubris.com> <3C8CF4C5.1050901@colubris.com> <20020311184223.GB28735@rearviewmirror.org> <3C8D0648.6070300@colubris.com> <1015875432.13991.32.camel@wubble.Genuity.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 6112fce9-e60e-4deb-b386-c2d06babd40c X-Archives-Hash: 99d2ca1cbb7faccf0dc23f196ecaa9c4 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 . . . -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Smith ----------------------------------------------------------------------------