Re: tor dependency insanity.

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On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 20:31 +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > I'm not quite sure why it needs separate lsb/upstart init scripts
> > anyway. 
> 
> All the initscripts have huge and broken dependency chains.
> E.g. assuming I would use the vanilla fedora 'initscripts' package, then
> tor would still require[1] syslog, cpio, e2fsprogs, ethtool, mount, ...
> although it does not log anything, does not extract/pack anything, does
> not format a filesystem, does not configures network interfaces nor
> mounts something.
> 
> 'upstart' is packaged more sanily (atm) so I want to have and provide the
> option, to install only the required stuff.  This is done by splitting
> out the core functionality and the ugly stuff (-lsb/-sysvinit) which is
> used by most (but not all) people.

fair enough, I understand the situation more from your posts now.
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