On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 03:59:46PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 10:07:38AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > Well this works for people that use the "old" init-style with links in > > > /etc/rc* and won't work for people like me that use file-rc. Please > > > provide first a solution for both cases. Then we can send out bugreports > > > and fix those packages. > > > > I sometimes wish we could settle on some of these key technologies, > > like the two rc schemes, and inetd versus xinetd. It would make a lot > > of things similar. Imagine if we had two menu systems. Similar confusion > > happens with the documentation systems. > > I disagree, I think we should settle on an interface that allows multiple > implementations. Settling on the sysv init.d would be a tie us to something > many people despise with a passion. It would make it hard to ever switch to > anything more flexible.
Wholeheartedly agreed. There is no way for example Debian GNU/Hurd will stay with sysv forever... it's simply too limiting. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
