On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 04:25:22PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > "John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" <johnandsa...@cox.net> writes: > > > I also fail to see how upstart or systemd add anything new while they > > obscure or delete previous good work (by suggesting init(1) is to be > > deleted). > > I would like to stop writing the same complex 50-line shell script with > the same obscure and weird workarounds and strange conventions every time > I package another piece of software that runs a daemon. Instead, I'd like > to just say "run this daemon with these arguments" and dispense with all > the obnoxious boilerplate.
Arguably, you don't need upstart or systemd for that. See the gentoo startup scripts for something that's very much less of a burden to manage. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120222090438.ga29...@glandium.org
