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Re: LSB Spec 1.0 Criticism



On 06 Jul 2001 at 10:43 (+0100), Nick Phillips wrote:
| On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 03:32:05AM -0400, Brent Verner wrote:
| > On 05 Jul 2001 at 12:33 (-0500), Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
| > | * Brent Verner (brent@rcfile.org) spake thusly:
| > | ...
| > | > I've started a new init/rc system meant to be LSB compliant. 
| > | ... the idea is to put together perl modules to handle
| > | > init scripts...
| > | 
| > | AAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIEEEEEE! Mama, make the bad thing go away.
| > 
| > Which part is the bad thing?
| 
| *requiring* perl to be on a system before the init scripts will work is
| very bad. think about it a while...

I did not make myself clear. /etc/init.d/rc should still be a 
(preferably statically linked) #!/bin/sh script. The perl modules 
are only to facilitate juggling the runlevel configs in a flexible
manner.

  b



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