On Saturday 31 January 2004 03:37 pm, Redeeman wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 20:30, Jerry McBride wrote:
--- one big snip ---
> > The SysV stuff is pretty well documented on the net, the Open Linux stuff
> > can still be found on the net too. All that needs to be done is
> > developing an ebuild that wipes out the gentoo hack and slides in a
> > decent startup script package that supports the gentoo layout. Do we
> > really need dependencies in the startup scripts???
>
> we do need dependencies.
>
Hmmm,,, for what? Linux has been booting computers since Linus posted the
source code and the only distribution that sports dependencies and caching is
Gentoo. Why... ohhhh... why... must the dependency information need to be her
cached each time a user starts up his/her laptop/desktop???
If nothing else is done to the startup scheme in Gentoo, then at least make
the dependency generation a part of portage and make it occur ONLY when
someone alters something in it.... There's no need to regenerate ANYTHING if
nothing has been altered since the last boot up....
The dependencies in gentoo's scripts are there to support the gentoo startup
scrfipts... Let's get something more efficent.
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