On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 06:39:43PM +0200, drago01 wrote: > Again the sysadmin case just implies that something *else* is broken. Sure. As a distribution, we don't have control over upstream projects and their assumptions for daemon startup, shutdown, status, etc. Sometimes, they want odd things. > Well if changing over to C does only get rid of this "disease" it > would be enough of a gain. > It would force broken apps to be fixed, and let admins edit > *configuration* files and not source code. If you think you can get every open source / free software project to agree on completely consistent behavior, or if you can create a text-format config file for your compiled daemon handler which handles every unanticipated case, well, okay. But it seems unlikely. (And that's not even considering running non-free software, which, while something I try to avoid, is a reasonable real-world use.) > Why don't people try to configure lets say X by editing its code'? X is one program produced by one project, with a text-mode config file that handles all of its possible options. That's easy. > Does this sound wrong to you? If yes than why would initscripts be > different? Because the initscripts system needs to flexibly handle and "make pretty" any random mess thrown at it. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
