Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> writes: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 04:25:22PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> 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. Sure. But you end up having to build all the functionality that's in upstart and systemd to do it. I'm pragmatic; if someone does the work that way instead, I'm happy to use it. But upstart and systemd do solve my problems. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/87obsqew06....@windlord.stanford.edu
