Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install and problem with net.* init.d script

2013-07-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 03:17:51 +0100, Steven J. Long wrote:

  You might as well ask why do you need or want any other form of IPC
  you already have, as that is what dbus is. It's a very small, light
  daemon, can run system-wide or per-session and has the potential to
  many of the IPC implementations you already have. Those are the ones
  that don't happen to show up in ps so you hear very little whinging
  about them.  
 
 You might as well just use the existing IPC mechanisms too,

Yes, lets have lots of IPC mechanisms instead of one daemon that handles
IPC for everything. While we're at it, let's get rid of syslog and add
file logging code to every program that needs it. cron and at seem a bit
of a waste of space too.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install and problem with net.* init.d script

2013-07-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 24/07/2013 11:02, Neil Bothwick wrote:
 On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 03:17:51 +0100, Steven J. Long wrote:
 
 You might as well ask why do you need or want any other form of IPC
 you already have, as that is what dbus is. It's a very small, light
 daemon, can run system-wide or per-session and has the potential to
 many of the IPC implementations you already have. Those are the ones
 that don't happen to show up in ps so you hear very little whinging
 about them.  

 You might as well just use the existing IPC mechanisms too,
 
 Yes, lets have lots of IPC mechanisms instead of one daemon that handles
 IPC for everything. While we're at it, let's get rid of syslog and add
 file logging code to every program that needs it. cron and at seem a bit
 of a waste of space too.


you forgot that shared library nonsense. Every app should just bundle
static copies of everything it needs and leave it up to the dev to deal
with bugs and security issues




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