OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du lundi 19 mars 2012, vers 18:48,
Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> disait :
>>> I just had a look, and no, that's not what metainit does.
>>> What it does is *generating* an init.d script, using the
>>> metainit syntax as input. IMO, just a normal shell script
>>> tiny library to simplify our init.d scripts would be enough.
>>>
>> So it does more than enough - sounds to me like it meets your
>> requirements (in fact exceeds them) and has the added advantage
>> that it *already exists* whereas the hypothetical shell script
>> library does not.
>>
> Not really. It invents a new syntax which I don't want to use.
> I want things to be more simple, not more complicated.
Writing configuration files with the shell is not going to be anywhere
simple. In two years, it will be the same mess as now: everybody will
have extended the "configuration" with its own functions and somebody
will come up and say those functions should be put into some library. We
already have /lib/lsb/init-functions and start-stop-daemon. Almost no
daemon stick to /etc/init.d/skeleton.
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