On Tuesday 18 February 2003 9:52 am, Henti Smith wrote: > On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:28:18 -0500 > > Phil Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, there's two points to make here. > > > > 1. It should be part of Gentoo, not some hack that I put together. > > This is up to the developers to decide. it might be a good idea, but in the > end their decision.
Anything that makes it easier to transition from the other Linux flavors where the init files are laid out very differently would make those testing the waters feel much more welcome. If that's not anyone's goal here, then I'm tilting at windmills. > > 2. The RH service script does a whole lot more than that, take a look, > > it's gpl... > > gpl does not mean everybody must use it, only that if so desired it can be > used. Wow, really! You mean I don't have to download every project on SourceForge? My point in mentioning that it's gpl was to point out that it's ok to post it in a public forum. > Personally I have never used redhat so the service command is a non event > in my life. there are alot of things not included in gentoo that I have to > add manually afterwards. > > from an admin point of view ... I know everything is in /etc/init.d/ so > service would not help my anyway since my fingers are used to typing > /etc/init.d (with tab completion of course) > > Just my 5 cents worth .. at current exchange rate .. thats about 0.01 cent > US > > If you REALLY want the service included ... write an ebuild for it and > submit it. "emerge rh-service" and you can have it part of gentoo while > other cannot care less that it's not included. You know, if I just had about 10 more hours each day do to do things like this, my life would be complete. What I was hoping for was that someone who does have the time and talent would pick it up and play with it and I would benefit by making others aware of this shortcut. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
