From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 171ED1381F3 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 06:39:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 591DEE0D10; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 06:39:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f54.google.com (mail-wg0-f54.google.com [74.125.82.54]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 324A7E0D09 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 06:38:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f54.google.com with SMTP id e12so3097448wgh.21 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2013 23:38:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2q1bkaNkU2IAw69FYbNzCpd2nmEW4QoIQXXalLFf+GA=; b=qvYyG/eQ6/mu8m7T8rXTDJzE7ERoAEMOjfBFd9qtw+WGus0aWaHv7goyozqmrMkpA4 VCu371CxDLxIfwOMKUFUBjO2TxJ+ZVndRwaRzXQEfZaowRfJ5Rg8/X/yh9eJdjTRSLms 8eDVXnkkT8eox5MKmZQnt0Fwo7gAGP+eWoG5HlqpZfA+O1+FzJ0AxhhDJ1BO7LpU6o6b VlS4ec6/l+WZAbLKMOlO7kBMtzJ7PiIq6bk+L3PRxw3+E263hdNg9S0dpHrxyZRyihaw dS8viGKoYeg0muKThsL8Ca0rUaEJpHk/jMN7MiZBlw9YiLyTCpQglYo0D9k/eN/8OwQW 144A== X-Received: by 10.180.13.210 with SMTP id j18mr6956280wic.51.1376894323821; Sun, 18 Aug 2013 23:38:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.20.201] (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ff5sm9161963wib.2.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 18 Aug 2013 23:38:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5211BCB0.1060106@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 08:35:28 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130809 Thunderbird/17.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo References: <5211226F.2000000@libertytrek.org> <201308182208.43780.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <521142A7.1020702@coolmail.se> <52119410.9050202@sporkbox.us> In-Reply-To: <52119410.9050202@sporkbox.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6611015e-f3a9-4048-acbe-ff4f19a9219b X-Archives-Hash: e4975e5c5952df023d8b2bf1c314a398 On 19/08/2013 05:42, Daniel Campbell wrote: > As a budding programmer I understand that a lot of the functionality > that users take for granted in sysvinit scripts is hacked together and prone to bash upgrades breaking them sysvinit scripts have ended up where almost every large project that spans many years ends up: #!/bin/sh # do a standard action here idea.get() # do some weird magic hacked user-defined shit here ??? # do a few more standard things here profit(!) sysvinit, like X11, needs a massive overhaul and a sprint clean. systemd may or may not be a good replacement -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com