Re: Init : someone could comment this ?

[Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin ncsu edu>]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Rudolf Kastl wrote:
>
> > > > > > > They got almost everything wrong you can get wrong in an init
> > > > > > > system. The kept the worst things from SysV (such as numerical
> > > > > > > "runlevels"),
> > > > > > What do you mean with numerical runlevels? does "default" for the
> > > > > > standard runlevel look "numerical" to you?
> > > > > Yes, where it is defined in the 'id' line in inittab.  And if it 
> > > > > doesn't
> > > > > stay that way, all of the machines I manage will crash and burn.
> > > > inittab is sysV init config file... it has nothing to do with 
> > > > initng ;)
> > > OK, that's a good reason not to use it, then.
> >
> > i dont get your logic...
>
> People running fedora will expect to use sysV style init configuration 
> to control it.
great. Maybe we should move back to KDE 1, since a lot of people got 
used to that at the beginning. :( In fact we don't offer compatibility 
with the abacus. I'm sure computers alienated a lot of abacus users way 
back when, maybe we could do something about that.

Interfaces change. We like to keep them the same but snapping the reigns 
and yelling "giddyup" just isn't a suitable control mechanism for a car. 
A new init system is likely going to have properties that inittab isn't 
capable of expressing. Users will have to learn. Anyone manually editing 
text config files is comfortable enough to handle the changes.

--CJD