Ruben Safir wrote:
That is NOT grounds to grow xinetd into THE init system.
Actually, this is exactly the parallel. xinit has been slowing mothballed because of the inherent security problem with the super server dameon, and systemd is all but the same thing now, but even worse.
They people who did this have no idea wwhat kind of security nightmare they have created for the long haul.
I would like to address a point that Carlos made as to the problems that developers were having working on release deadlines with the initrd system. The ***truth is**** that time being taken was essentail, important and it was a good thing. We are talking about the central core of the operating systems chorographic abilities and command structure. I know this might not be as exciting as porting Mozilla and the gimp, breaking clutter and making background images for kdm....
but it is the ESSENTIAL task of the distributions existense. It is too much work? Bullshit. It was/is the job and the reason for chosing one design over another. Now they have passed this who thing to a couple of redhat engineers, and perhaps not very good ones, btw.
As my grandfather would have called them, "high school engineers" (In the U.S., "high school" is years 9-12 of basic education, and is the general requirement for applying to colleges & universities.
If you want that development to be easy and simple. drop back down to a BSD init like process. Even object oriented programmers can likely do that.
One thing I like about BSD init is that it is quite reliable.
Ruben
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