Re: [gentoo-dev] initscripts in python

["merv" <merv@spidernet.com.cy>]

hi

for the box I mentioned,  I have not installed the portage tree.  After 
Stage1 I kinda lept sideways and continued manually (not emerging) 
building packages (of which there were very few) by compiling on 
another machine and then network-installing to the little box (i did 
install gcc in the little box to ensure maximal optimisation compile 
time).  I don't have the spare capacity for the portage tree since 
whatever spare space there is goes to the logging files of the firewalls 
it is now running.

On 16 Apr 2003 at 15:44, Abhishek Amit wrote:

> On 08:38 Wed 16 Apr     , merv wrote:
> > It may be a difficult one to call though.  I imagine that many would feel 
> > similar sentiments about the scripting advantages of both Python and 
> > shell scripting.  Maybe practicality would have the last say, however. 
> > On machines with very limited resources (I have a box running Gentoo 
> > on a Pentium 133Mhz and < 1GB harddrive with 64Mb RAM), Python 
> > would be a death sentence for the box.  Shell scripting is the only 
> > option in such environments for job control etc etc.
> > 
> If you run gentoo python is a requirment that you can not avoid in any
> way. Portage is completly python. So I don't really see how python could
> be too heavy unless you mean specifically for running these scripts.
> 
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