On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 13:43:03 -0400, Lamar Owen said: > Now, I've read the arguments, and I am squarely in the 'do one thing and > do it well' camp. But, let's turn that on its head, shall we? Why oh > why do we want every single package to implement its own initscript and > possibly do it poorly?
Umm.. because maybe, just maybe, the package maintainers know more about the ugly details of what it takes to start a given package than the init system authors know? If they botch the boilerplate section of an initscript, maybe they shouldn't be releasing packages. On the other hand, the *non*-boilerplate section of the initscript is something that *only* the package maintainers are qualified to write.
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