On 2020-06-11 11:46, Simon Hobson wrote: > > > What's left in Debian are bits that are actually used by some > > > programs. > > > > Such as the LSB headers in init scripts? > > > > Some SysV init maintainers have very strict opinions on those > > headers, considered a language for the insserv "compiler". They > > horrified at the idea that a sysadmin could still manually number > > some links in rc?.d, thereby rejecting the idea of stable > > renumbering in order to keep existing order where possible > > (fix-init). > > And contributing to the "SysVInit is bad - it's scripts are too long" > "argument" from certain quarters.
FWIW, BSD has long had a similar mechanism for init script ordering. It may not be the default on all the BSD flavors, though. And of course openrc works in a similar way though the dependencies there are determined at runtime. -- Ian _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
