On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 23:08 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > > > Currently the action is done based on the link name, which is inherently > > > fragile in my opinion. > > > > How so? > > Just change the link name.
I just don't buy this argument. If I rename /sbin/init to /sbin/lose , my system won't boot. How is this any different? > > Why? What advantage does it bring at all? > > > which seems less fragile as it doesn't depend on the link name (as other > > > distro's may want a different name linking to these scripts for > > > compatibility) and is simpler and shorter. > > > > Do you have an example of anybody who actually wants to do this? > > We can say to any distro, just symlink your existing suspend script > (which each distro has done slightly differently) to our file, and > things will just work, and preserve compatibility with the other > distro's scripts. That change won't help make that true -- they'll still need to handle command line options, etc. So they'll need a wrapper script either way. [...] > Either way it's not something I'm going to get passionate about, it was > just an idea. Ok. -- Peter _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
