[Pm-utils] pm-action

[Peter Jones]

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 23:08 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:

> > > Currently the action is done based on the link name, which is inherently
> > > fragile in my opinion.
> > 
> > How so?
> 
> Just change the link name.

I just don't buy this argument.  If I rename /sbin/init to /sbin/lose ,
my system won't boot.  How is this any different?

> > Why?  What advantage does it bring at all?
> > > which seems less fragile as it doesn't depend on the link name (as other
> > > distro's may want a different name linking to these scripts for
> > > compatibility) and is simpler and shorter.
> > 
> > Do you have an example of anybody who actually wants to do this?
> 
> We can say to any distro, just symlink your existing suspend script
> (which each distro has done slightly differently) to our file, and
> things will just work, and preserve compatibility with the other
> distro's scripts.

That change won't help make that true -- they'll still need to handle
command line options, etc.  So they'll need a wrapper script either way.

[...]
> Either way it's not something I'm going to get passionate about, it was
> just an idea.

Ok.

-- 
  Peter