In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marek Habersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> The guys from the LSB (Linux Base Standard) are currently talking with >> Debian and RedHat to agree on one standard /etc/init.d structure. It >> will probably be abstracted and have symbolic names and dependencies. >Eechh.... yet another standard?? Like it wasn't easier to chose one from the >existing ones...
As you know, RedHat, Debian, Suse etc have very different bootup procedures. We don't want ISVs to bother with that. So we need a system that works across distributions. On debian-devel there has been talk about a better setup with dpkg-like dependancies. This is a good thing. You don't have to bother with at which priority to place a new service. You can just say "this service must be started after networking and name services are available". The LSB people are seriously looking at a system already created by fellow Debian developers which does all this and more. Normally I don't like changing something that's working either. I do not really like things like file-rc. But this is actually something that is not an alternative but a superiour solution. Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?