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Re: LSB Spec 1.2 criticism



On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 02:27:28PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 
> So while it might have been nice to unify what system administrations
> might see in /etc/init.d scripts, that isn't the primary goal of the
> LSB.  Hence, the only goal is to register the names of /etc/init.d
> scripts so that they don't conflict with LSB applications --- not to
> specify whether klogd should be started from /etc/init.d/syslogd, or
> /etc/init.d/sysklogd, or whatever.
> 
> 						- Ted

Ah!!!
That makes sense then.

I would then request that the LSB chapter regarding init scripts, state
something very similar to:

<addition>
The goal of this chapter is not to dictate the naming standards for
LSB compliant distributions, but rather for LSB applications to take note of.

The reasoning for reservation and/or LALANA registration, is to prevent LSB 
applications (ie. distribution independent software using LSB compliant
distributions), to not install a script with the same name as an already 
registered/reserved/commonly used script name. Thus it's the onus of the LSB
application providers to ensure that theircw script names do not clash with
other equivalent LSB applications nor with reserved/registered script names.
</addition>

I believe this shuold give the necessary clarity, which I'm currently missng
in this chapter on init.d script names.

Greetings
Hendrik
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