On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 05:06:17PM +0200, Laurent Bercot wrote: > 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. >
+1 I agree that maintaining all the init scripts in a single package is not just crazy but practically impossible. A quick: enzo@kaa:~$ apt-file -x search /etc/init.d/ | wc -l 1201 enzo@kaa:~$ should clarify any remaining doubt.... HND KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
