On 2013-07-31, Bruce Hill <da...@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 01:09:03PM -0500, Canek Pel?ez Vald?s wrote: >>> >>> Hmmmn, it's a bit freaking weird - if I'm understanding correctly >>> some of the statements made here about systemd - that there will be >>> files installed to /etc/init.d/ that don't actually do anything. >> >> If you use systemd, all the files installed in /etc/init.d (except >> functions.sh) don't actually do nothing. If you use OpenRC, all the >> files installed in /urs/lib/systemd/system don't actually do nothing. >> >> Whichever you use (OpenRC or systemd), you will have files in both >> locations (actually, a bunch of them), and therefore one of those >> locations will have files that don't actually do nothing. >> >> Unless you use INSTALL_MASK, which is of course what this is all about.
> In English "don't actually do nothing" means "do something"; i.e. "don't > actually do anything" != "don't actually do nothing". In standard, formal English, that's correct. However, in some English dialects, a double-negatve does not equate to a positive. A double negative is simply a stronger negative. For example, "don't do nothing" is a stronger, more emphatic version of "don't do anything". Languages like that have "negative concord". Old and Middle English were that way, and some modern dialects of English are that way. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Either CONFESS now or at we go to "PEOPLE'S COURT"!! gmail.com