Re: Naming of init.d scripts and the LSB

2005-10-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:40:30AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Steve Langasek] Debian packages shouldn't have to compete with the LSB for its own namespace. Well, assuming that it is a good thing to have cross-distribution consistency, because this make users more comfortable with

Re: Naming of init.d scripts and the LSB

2005-10-03 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Steve Langasek] The goal of the LSB is to provide a standard that ISVs can write to -- *not* to make life easier for admins moving from distro to distro. Hm, that is sad. Because some of us with a large number of machines, do need to handle cross-distribution consistency. Not to move from

Re: Naming of init.d scripts and the LSB

2005-10-03 Thread Philip Hands
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Steve Langasek] The goal of the LSB is to provide a standard that ISVs can write to -- *not* to make life easier for admins moving from distro to distro. Hm, that is sad. Because some of us with a large number of machines, do need to handle cross-distribution

Re: Naming of init.d scripts and the LSB

2005-10-03 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2005-10-03 kello 13:55 +0100, Philip Hands kirjoitti: I think both latitudes can be largely satisfied if LANANA can be persuaded (if they do not already do so) to solicit approval from distributors before issuing new approvals. It's so much easier to do this: 1) LANANA only

Re: Naming of init.d scripts and the LSB

2005-10-03 Thread Matt Taggart
Petter Reinholdtsen writes... [Steve Langasek] Debian packages shouldn't have to compete with the LSB for its own namespace. As pointed out in another mail, they don't. Trying to quash this wrong idea before it spreads... Well, assuming that it is a good thing to have

Re: Naming of init.d scripts and the LSB

2005-10-03 Thread Matt Taggart
Steve Langasek writes... That's a fine goal, but I believe it's out of scope for the LSB, and I don't want to see the ability of distros to conform to the LSB compromised by some poorly designed attempt to enforce common init script names. As I pointed out in another mail, the LSB can't