* Thomas Goirand: > 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. If it's embedded into shell, people will use shell features, and you won't get portability to init systems which aren't shell-based or just use different service states.