[Tfug] Well, now i've seen it all.

[bpoag at comcast.net]

With regard to the need for dependancies and parallelism, sure, those needs exist.. However, I highly doubt that either one mandates such a complete overhaul of a foundational Unix concept in order to implement. 

If you want faster boot times, dependencies and self-healing startups, that's what the sysadmin is for; Someone to sew together the finer points of a systems deployment, to make an environment specific to the needs of a user or group of users. Anything beyond that enters the realm of titanic stupidity where things like putting a fucking spoiler on an SUV make sense. 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Rice" <david.l.rice at gmail.com> 
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org> 
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 2:11:49 PM 
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Well, now i've seen it all. 

Solaris 10 did the same thing years ago with SMF, there are some good reasons to be done with inittab. You can't create dependancies, startup processes were serial instead of parallel nor can you support "self healing". It's not the end of the world. 

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