Gentoo Resisting?

Posted Nov 30, 2014 21:00 UTC (Sun) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Gentoo Resisting? by dlang
Parent article: The "Devuan" Debian fork

Hundreds of lines of shell scripts doing some very un-intuitive hopping through hoops is nearly antonymous with "simple" in my book. Almost each time I had to mess with the "simple" configuration I had to make sure to have a nearby tty with assorted man pages open while wading through huge files setting up assorted shell functions, most of which had no bearing on the issue at hand. And this when the mess was finally somewhat tamed by setting up said common infrastructure. Not my idea of "transparent". Once a miscreant managed to slip in a few lines setting up a backdoor, due to the "flexibility" shell scripts offer. All those I can do without, thank you so very much.

Gentoo Resisting?

Posted Nov 30, 2014 21:04 UTC (Sun) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

> huge files setting up assorted shell functions, most of which had no bearing on the issue at hand

That is a problem with the distro that is setting up and maintaining those scripts, not with the idea of the scripts themselves.

I agree with you that init scripts that go that route are far from transparent. I hate them as well. But if you look at the different distro families, you will see that some are far worse about this than others are.