Re: Init : someone could comment this ?

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de>]

On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 10:44 -0500, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
> On Jan 6, 2008 5:36 AM, Enrico Scholz
> <enrico scholz informatik tu-chemnitz de> wrote:
> > An initsystem which requires depbloat like python or perl is completely
> > unacceptably.
> 
> Bash is not depbloat, but bash + awk + grep + any other userspace
> tools shows alot of dep bloat. 
You will want to make yourself familiar with POSIX.

>  Since python is installed on most
> machines,
Only because RH/Fedora's infrastructure forces users to install it.

>  and almost always putting at least some code in shared
> memory space, asking for Python in particular is not unreasonable.
I could not disagree more - To me any init-script system requiring
anything outside of what POSIX requires is a mis-conception and flawed
design.

Ralf