hhm <heehooman+debian-devel-l...@gmail.com> writes: > As is well known, init daemons in distros the distro-world over are > replacing sysvinit. > > As far as I can tell, among the reasons for this phenomena is: > 1) to take advantage of parallel processing > 2) to work better with event-based systems (linux kernel etc.) > > Sysvinit was created in the age of synchronous computing systems, and > it reflects this. Now systems are becoming more asynchronous. > > The way these things are addressed is often: > 1) a dependency system > 2) an event trigger system > > Well, does those two things sound familiar, by any chance :-)? > > Apt manages dependencies, and processes triggers. It was created for > managing software packages... > > ...maybe it can be augmented with functionality to manage software services > too!
Is it first of April again? I haven't even noticed! This idea violates the KISS-principle. -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87libu5xoj....@fx.delysid.org
