On 18/06/2015 16:15, Steve Litt wrote:
I was envisioning Devuan people making the defs and runscripts, not the authors of the init systems. It would be crazy for us to think you, or someone in your position, would write AND MAINTAIN between 30 and 200 run scripts. That's crazy. What wouldn't be crazy would be for two or three Devuan people to write and maintain a fleet of s6 run scripts.
But my point is that it's crazy no matter who does it! Devuan people aren't superhuman. How do you expect to give every script the attention it requires and deserves if you're maintaining 200 of them? If I, an upstreamer, make a small change to a daemon's interface, the change has to be reflected in the service scripts; if I make one such change a month, it's definitely manageable for you, packager, as long as I'm the only one doing it - but if every upstreamer you have is doing the same thing, you'll go bonkers in no time. You were complaining about the difficulty of managing the VimOutliner package; well, if the package maintainer was responsible for a hundred other upstreamers, it's really no wonder. And you're suggesting that two or three poor Devuan maintainers take up a fleet of s6 - or other - scripts in one unique package, while making sure things are kept clean and simple and don't become as overloaded as Debian init scripts did? In one year they'll flip tables and go raise goats in Africa in order to never have to touch a computer again. -- Laurent _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
