On Jan 26, 2015 11:01 AM, "Peter Stuge" <pe...@stuge.se> wrote: > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > there wouldn't be an /etc/init.d, but rather a bazillion > > /pkg/guid/etc/init.d directories or something like that > > I guess an abstraction akin to pkg-config could solve the problem. >
Sort of. You can't call a service "mysql" if both mysql and mariadb use that name. Namespaces seem to always be a compromise between convenience (I'm a sysadmin, not a system), and flexibility (if we just identified users by guids and expected RSA authentication at the keyboard we'd never have a problem). -- Rich