Parsing /etc/os-release

2018-03-25 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
For those who might be parsing /etc/os-release, and for those who have seen the way that the nosh toolset does it, in its build system and in the external configuration import subsystem: * https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/433245/5132

Re: [Announce] s6.rc: a distribution-friendly init/rc framework

2018-03-25 Thread Casper Ti. Vector
On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 06:38:33AM +, Laurent Bercot wrote: > A major selling point of the s6 and s6-rc formats is that they're easy > to autogenerate, and a frontend would be proof of that. We claim we're > technically better than everyone else, and that our paradigm is more > flexible than

Re: [Announce] s6.rc: a distribution-friendly init/rc framework

2018-03-25 Thread Laurent Bercot
On a second thought, what about (at least a attempt at) solving the human (political) problems by human means (propaganda, but of the factually correct type)? It's not a political problem, it's a religious problem. You just cannot convince people that your UI is better, any more than you can