On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 14:34 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote:
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.
No, it's "slim down a system to what is
inevitably necessary" and don't
try to fall into the trap of trying to replace one interpreter with
another one, which in reality only means to _add_ another one.
Ralf