[arch-general] OT: [Bulk] Re: RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Mon May 7 10:19:02 EDT 2012


On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 22:13 +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> On 04/29/12 23:22, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Patrick Lauer <patrick at gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> The sysvinit code is so "boring" that there are still typos in the
> >> comments because not enough people even look at it to notice ...
> > The lack of maintenance of sysvinit is a bit worrying, isn't it?
> Au contraire ... it's so boring-stable that no one *needs* to even look
> at it.
> That's how I like my software best, so boring that most people don't
> even notice it exists :)

With typos where they belong to, to the comments instead of the code :).
Speaking for software in general, not especially for the one this thread
is about. Software never should be dropped, because it's not maintained,
when there's no need to maintain it.



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