Designing a new init: configuration

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Erich Schubert <erich.schubert at gmail.com> [2005.08.28.0211 +0200]:
> 2. Extended commands in init scripts - the simpleinit/need/provide approach

Gentoo also takes this one.

> 3. Daemontools / minit approach
[...]
> Drawbacks:
> - nonstandard configuration

that's not a problem. we can make it standard. :)

> - configuration has issues with package upgrades (deleted option
> files might reappear)

no, they will not. Deleting a conffile is a change to the conffile
that the policy says must not be overwritten.

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