[arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

Victor Lowther victor.lowther at gmail.com
Tue Jun 29 09:20:57 EDT 2010


On Jun 29, 2010, at 5:55 AM, solsTiCe d'Hiver  
<solstice.dhiver at gmail.com> wrote:

> Le lundi 28 juin 2010 à 17:55 +0200, Lukáš Jirkovský a écrit :
>> Actually I see the point of doing this. Arch is a modern distribution
>> with the newest software around so why stuck with shell constructs
>> which are probably dozens of years old?
>>
>> Lukas
>
> Yes. I definitely agree. We have to pray that a dev is interested in  
> the
> patch now ;-)

Thomas seemed moderatly interested.

> @Victor:
> You last commit that is supposed to fix whitespace mess in fact  
> create a
> mess with whitespace. Also it changes all the modelines for vim:
> for example from
> # vim: set ft=sh sw=2 ts=2 et:
> to
> # vim: set ft=sh sw=4 ts=4 et:

When it comes to whitespace, I do whatever indent-region and  
whitespace-cleanup tell me to.

>
> in fact, I would suggest that you revert your commit
> 59c7059e78491988c5d8d495c731fb66fe8f7224. It does not fix anything.
>
> check for yourself with
> git checkout bashification
> git diff master
> but
> git diff master HEAD~1
> is clearly better
>


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