Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch [OT]

Sat Oct 25 15:12:55 UTC 2014

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Jim Mercer <jim at reptiles.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:41:39AM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
>> All those init.d scripts do about 95% the same thing, all hacked
>> together in shell. Most of them are probably just slightly edited
>> versions of some few paleo-scripts.
>
> in FreeBSD, the bulk of the rc.d scripts are basically the same format,
> inhaling a standardized library of functions, populating some variables,
> maybe adding a few custom functions, then jumping to "main".

If all of the scripts are cut'n'paste copes of each other, wouldn't it
be better to figure out a way to stop cutting and pasting?  I can't
count the number of times I've run into problems with my code because
of that, never mind how many times it's happened in other people's
code.

-- 
Jeff Ollie