Public SourceMage Discussion List

["Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

On 00:35:21 2007-09-18 "Bearcat M. Sandor" <sourcemage AT feline-soul.com>
wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Is there a reason why we use simpleinit-msb? What does it do that the
> regular init doesn't to make it worth all this work?
> 
> I've been around since the beginning and i don't know why we switched.
> I was working on a Kubuntu laptop's scripts the other day and i thought.
> "Wow. This is easy compared to Sourcemage."
> 
> Bearcat M. Sandor
> 

It provides us with on-the-fly dependencies of init scripts(read not
necessary to have them be pre-generated).

A goal we have is to provide user choice... And providing multiple inits is
among those... Just nobody really started working on that...

And I always considered our scripts very easy... It's the way we work with
them that's complicated...

Hopefully I'll be able to resume work on IMP(init manager program) shortly, 
that would offload the init/xinetd out of sorcery and into a separate app.
Then adding to that would be support for other inits, ability to specify
own init setup etc...

The relevant wiki pages:
http://wiki.sourcemage.org/Init_Plans
http://wiki.sourcemage.org/InitMetadata

--
Andraž "ruskie" Levstik
Source Mage GNU/Linux Games grimoire guru
Geek/Hacker/Tinker

Be sure brain is in gear before engaging mouth.

Key id = F4C1F89C
Key fingerprint = 6FF2 8F20 4C9D DB36 B5B6  F134 884D 72CC F4C1 F89C