On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 17:41:02 -0600 William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> All, > > as part of bug 599044 [1], I have created a tmpfiles project which is a > standalone utility to handle systemd style tmpfiles.d files. > > There is currently a live ebuild in the tree, but I haven't done any > releases yet. > > Take a look at it, and anything about it is open for discussion at this > point. > > The name is a bit vague, but honestly I couldn't figure out a better > name. I don't really want openrc in the name, because this is meant to > be more generic than that; it is not meant to require OpenRC to run. > OpenRC will use it, but not the other way around. opentmpfiles? tmprc? :-D > If you see any bugs, now is also the time to let me know before any > releases are out. > > The plan, once the first release is out, is to rewrite this utility in a > better language. I'm considering C, but if I am comfortable by that time > in Go or Rust, I may use one of them. Sounds like a good way to lose 95% [1] of users. [1]: Note: it's just a random approximation. It may be underestimated. -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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