On Wed, 26.05.10 12:49, Matthew Miller (mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > 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.) Well, if we cannot get rid of all shell scripts that is fine. If we can get rid of 90% of them a lot is achieved already. And to me it looks much more like > 98% of the scripts that can be removed without ill-effect if systemd is used. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
