>tarballs are to packages what >a window manager is to a desktop environment.
lol... nice. :-) >until you install or uninstall new software that needs startup/shutdown >services, or you want pre-service control, or you want/need to reorder start >up/shutdwn orders, or you want to make a change to how apache is started >regardless of runlevel, or.... Well, that's what the .conf files are for, aren't they now? ;-) Aaron, you make me laugh. You also win the flame war with a single reply. Nicely done. I take my hat off to you, sir. ;-) <lol> Curtis. -----Original Message----- From: Aaron J. Seigo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 19:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Slackware vs. the world flamewar ;-) (was: recom mendations for a web server) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 04 June 2003 06:13, Curtis Sloan wrote: > >Apologies to all the Slackware fans out there, I just don't like it much > > =) > > Hehehe -- FLAME WAR!!! CHARGE!!!!! ;-) > >and no package management. > > Er, I could quote Patrick Volkerding verbatim here, but I won't. There are > package management tools, and they do work. Just because they don't check > dependencies. Or automatically update. Or anything else really... ;-P heh... then it isn't package management, is it? tarballs are to packages what a window manager is to a desktop environment. > What's wrong with BSD-style init scripts anyways? SysV, BSD... it all > seems esoteric to me. The computer runs. It changes run levels. Scripts > fire. All is well. Right? ;-) until you install or uninstall new software that needs startup/shutdown services, or you want pre-service control, or you want/need to reorder start up/shutdwn orders, or you want to make a change to how apache is started regardless of runlevel, or.... yes, you can do all this with a BSD style init, but there are very good reasons people came up with the SysV style init: it's faster, easily automatable and less error prone. - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE: The 'K' is for 'kick ass' http://www.kde.org http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+3po91rcusafx20MRAtUlAJ49jCE8Ar/UoA3/genCOF0hoK0LzQCgn6jN 31IarnhW518rSfszECKv3hg= =GpvY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
