Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 04:25:22PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" <johnandsara2@cox.net> writes:
>
> > I also fail to see how upstart or systemd add anything new while they
> > obscure or delete previous good work (by suggesting init(1) is to be
> > deleted).
>
> I would like to stop writing the same complex 50-line shell script with
> the same obscure and weird workarounds and strange conventions every time
> I package another piece of software that runs a daemon. Instead, I'd like
> to just say "run this daemon with these arguments" and dispense with all
> the obnoxious boilerplate.
Arguably, you don't need upstart or systemd for that. See the gentoo
startup scripts for something that's very much less of a burden to
manage.
Mike
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