Faster is nice but ... [LWN.net]

Faster is nice but ...

Posted Sep 21, 2003 19:04 UTC (Sun) by danielos (subscriber, #6053)
In reply to: Faster is nice but ... by AnswerGuy
Parent article: Boot Linux faster (IBM developerWorks)

As for changing the system to use 'make' instead of sh to run all of the rc scripts ... nice idea with a certain elegance; but the automated (package manager driven) maintenance of start up scripts is too valuable to throw away for a few seconds boot time savings. I want to see how the package maintainers will drop their start/stop scripts into place under such a scheme. They we have to re-train EVERY package maintainer (at least for one distribution) to handle this new scheme.
Well, I guess it's not so hard to add boot depend in a special file parsed by debhelper script, and this is only for service package. For example if you maintain apache you create a file (i.e. boot-depend) in debian dir and add a line in rules (i.e. dh_bootdepend).

The only work is the script to generate a makefile, and this is almost simple

It seems simple to me

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