Re: LSB Spec 1.0 Criticism

[Glenn McGrath <bug1@debian.org>]

Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:44:14AM +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 little while.
>
> Are you perl-phobic?
I am a bit perl-phobic, are there any advantages to having a perl init 
scripts as compared to posix shell init script ?

A shell will always be needed, but it should be possible to have a 
system that doesnt have perl installed.

Unless there is a clear advantage to adding the complexity best to avoid 
it IMHO.


Glenn