[arch-general] checking runlevels in rc.shutdown

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Mon Oct 5 13:58:10 EDT 2009


On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can we actually do without this check for runlevels? It is
>> additionally not compatible with Upstart, I understand Upstart is not
>> supported in Arch in any way, but still more flexible rc.xxx scripts
>> in Arch would be a good thing afterall.
>
> BTW, how about splitting rc.sysinit, rc.multi and rc.shutdown in
> separate scriptlets?
>
> I don't propose that the installed scripts should be split, but the
> source files could be kept split and a simple Makefile could "compile"
> them in the form used today?
>
> (this would allow for easier reusing them in alternative init systems)

I removed the if and pushed it to master.

Regardin the reusing and things like that - not my bag. It seems like
it'd just overcomplicate things for no gain to us (we only ship one
init system).


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