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De-bashing Debian

De-bashing Debian

Posted May 27, 2010 16:57 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
In reply to: De-bashing Debian by Tobu
Parent article: De-bashing Debian

And with systemd [see recent LWN article], eventually there is less need to use shell for booting.


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De-bashing Debian

Posted May 28, 2010 11:45 UTC (Fri) by nescafe (subscriber, #45063) [Link]

Hopefully not -- bash syntax makes for perfectly readable conf files. One of my biggest annoyances with upstart is that Scott invented yet another poorly documented config file syntax instead of just embedding bash and using it for all his config needs.

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