Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> fluently. Are you saying that people who don't read the (IMHO rather arcane)
> sed regex syntax, "having problems" with such syntax, shouldn't touch

I am saying that people who *can't* read the sed regex syntax, shouldn't
touch Debian initscripts, yes.

Note that "can't" and "don't" are different.  If you "don't", and you need
to, you do some reading and learn it at least for enough time to fix
whatever you need to fix.  If you "can't", stay away from initscripts.

> initscripts? At the very least, it should commented that what is does is
> indeed converting "(whatever) --foo=bar (whatever)" to "bar" when $1=foo.

Now, commenting it would be a good thing, yes.

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