On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 03:58:45PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 10:38:33AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 10:58:37 +0000 > > hellekin <helle...@dyne.org> wrote: > > > > > On 06/03/2016 10:42 PM, Florian Zieboll wrote: > > > > > > > > That said, I wonder, what information any > > > > arbitrary init system would need, that can not be delivered e.g. in > > > > a simple XML file, packaged with the daemon. > > > > > > > > > > An XML file, however simple it may be, is probably the last thing you > > > want to add to an arbitrary init system. > > > > Hi hellekin, > > > > That was my reaction, before realizing that his idea was to, just once > > per config change, modify the XML and then run a user level program to > > update the rc files or whatever. > > > > Unfortunately, there is no such thing as "just...modify the XML and > run a user level program to update the rc file" which has ever worked > flawlessly. "Just... modifying" an existing XML is a nightmare for a > human, which is why you usually leave it to tools, which unavoidably > become complex and unmaintanable. > > I am absolutely sure that there is an easier and more maintainable > solution than XML. We probably have to think harder.
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