On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 19:09 +0100, Mike Auty wrote: > On 23/08/10 18:26, Olivier Crête wrote: > > > > Other distributions are going one step further and are going for > > shell-free boot. We should follow that lead. > > > > Why? Presumably they're doing it by writing programs that do their own > parsing and executing, which means they'll need a maintainer just for > that program and they'll have to go through a few iterations to get the > initial bugs out, and then people will have to learn how to use the > different-yet-again language that goes with it. Why not rely on a > prebuilt parser that devs already have to know to look after ebuilds?
Systemd uses ini style files for configuration (and symlinks). So there really isn't much of a parser in there. And obviously, they're going through some bugfixing right now, so when F14/F15 are out there, we can just take their complete solution ;) -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer
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