James Findley wrote:
Modern systems just don't take very long to spawn awk. Or sed. Or
cut.
Or bash. IMO this sort of tradeoff between speed and ease of use hasn't
been appropriate in 20 years.
It's really not at all uncommon for me to need to modify an init script.
There would be much rage if in order to do this I had to download the
SRPM, extract the init code, figure out what I needed to change, modify
it, recompile then install.
Absolutely.
I remember something similar with hal-disk-something, related to mount
options. One day everything got switched to compiled code and
manageability approached zero.
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