On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 14:34 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 10:44 -0500, Yaakov Nemoy wrote: > > > >> On Jan 6, 2008 5:36 AM, Enrico Scholz > >> <enrico.scholz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >>> An initsystem which requires depbloat like python or perl is completely > >>> unacceptably. > >>> > >> Bash is not depbloat, but bash + awk + grep + any other userspace > >> tools shows alot of dep bloat. > >> > > You will want to make yourself familiar with POSIX. > > > > > >> Since python is installed on most > >> machines, > >> > > Only because RH/Fedora's infrastructure forces users to install it. > > > > > >> and almost always putting at least some code in shared > >> memory space, asking for Python in particular is not unreasonable. > >> > > I could not disagree more - To me any init-script system requiring > > anything outside of what POSIX requires is a mis-conception and flawed > > design. > > > > > Is there a reason for this? It still sounds like a whole lot of "PURGE > THE IMPURE!!!" to me. No, it's "slim down a system to what is inevitably necessary" and don't try to fall into the trap of trying to replace one interpreter with another one, which in reality only means to _add_ another one. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
