On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 03:34:16PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:20:42 -0500 > Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Here's a new Epoch Init System howto, with which any reasonably > > knowledgeable Linux user can replace his or her current init system > > with Epoch: > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/init/manjaro_experiments.htm#pure_epoch_init_system
A few points to consider: * It doesn't start tasks in parallel. Sure it's lean. But does it boot a normal system fast enough? * It doesn't have proper service dependencies. You have to manage all of them on your own. * Systemd uses dbus to avoid creating its own IPC. Epoch chose to create its wn IPC. * For Debian an init system considered must be able to replace legacy init files. Or rather: allow partial conversion: you can't afford rewriting all service descriptions yourself. * On a system with package management, each package should provide its own service definition. Ideally the init system could parse them from a directory. If not, you probably need a program to pre-process them to a single configuration file (but then this is a generated configuration file - see grub2's configuration). * The word "Object" seems odd. It seems like it could have been chopped off configuration directives with better planning (consider also ssh_config). * ">!>" starts a multi-line comment and "<!<" ends them. Intuitively I would think it's the other way around. Also: hopefully bidi won't kick in to confuse the two. * I also confuse it with <<< and >>>-s left from unsuccessful merges. I intuitively consider them error characters. In short: a toy init system. At least for now. It's good enough for your own home system if you spend the time configuring it, or for a custom embedded system. It's not going to replace other systems soon. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
