Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 10:44 -0500, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
> On Jan 6, 2008 5:36 AM, Enrico Scholz
> <enrico.scholz(a)informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
>
>> An initsystem which requires depbloat like python or perl is completely
>> unacceptably.
>>
> Bash is not depbloat, but bash + awk + grep + any other userspace
> tools shows alot of dep bloat.
>
You will want to make yourself familiar with POSIX.
> Since python is installed on most
> machines,
>
Only because RH/Fedora's infrastructure forces users to install it.
> and almost always putting at least some code in shared
> memory space, asking for Python in particular is not unreasonable.
>
I could not disagree more - To me any init-script system requiring
anything outside of what POSIX requires is a mis-conception and flawed
design.
Is there a reason for this? It still sounds like a whole lot of "PURGE
THE IMPURE!!!" to me.
--CJD