This one time, at band camp, Roger Leigh said: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 06:02:34PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > cloud-init-0.7.2 $ wc -l systemd/* upstart/* sysvinit/* > > 17 systemd/cloud-config.service > > 10 systemd/cloud-config.target > > 17 systemd/cloud-final.service > > 16 systemd/cloud-init-local.service > > 17 systemd/cloud-init.service > > 9 upstart/cloud-config.conf > > 10 upstart/cloud-final.conf > > 9 upstart/cloud-init.conf > > 57 upstart/cloud-init-container.conf > > 9 upstart/cloud-init-local.conf > > 69 upstart/cloud-init-nonet.conf > > 19 upstart/cloud-log-shutdown.conf > > 121 sysvinit/cloud-config > > 121 sysvinit/cloud-final > > 121 sysvinit/cloud-init > > 121 sysvinit/cloud-init-local > > > > Doesn't that underline that "classical" init scripts are a big waste of time > > for maintainers, and a workload that can not be shared between distributions ? > > Not without knowing the specifics of why this package requires so many > separate scripts. Normally I understood that systemd was more granular > than the corresponding init scripts, so would have more files in > general. But without knowing more about what all those separate > scripts are doing and why, it's not possible to draw any useful > conclusion from these numbers. It's not clear to me why they need to be so large - there are 4 scripts that need to be run in a certain order, once, at boot time. I'm sure that that complexity could be expressed in fewer than 484 lines of shell. This is not to knock cloud-init - it's a wonderful piece of software. Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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