On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 20:31, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Seth posted more about his SystemServices thing (skip the 80s music
> paragraph).
>
http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/2003/Sep/27
Aside from more flexible startup notification of services during boot,
does anyone know what other advantages this architecture provides?
Certainly doing something as drastic as replacing init can't be
justified by the end goal of having a graphical booting, so I'm quite
keen to hear some other other benefits of SystemServices or the
deficiencies of init/initscripts SystemServices will address.
Just my own two cents:
* Boot time, the time before you get a login screen is
pretty long in initscripts model.
* No way to define different profiles, for example, one
for HTTP serving, one as a workstation.
* Silly dependency handling, by putting services in a
total order, so they can't be run in parallel.
Cheers,
Jason.