minimizing footprint

[Gonzalo Odiard]

IMHO, if we can speed up the startup time a litle,
the change worth it.
We are talking of end users systems, how many kids will add a cron task?
And who propose  the change is dsd, we know him and is
a conservative guy, does not do change without reason.
We did this in the same way the last 30 years, is not the best argument
neither...

Gonzalo


On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:

> i think the point john (gilmore) was making is that it's a bad
> precedent that simply because a) systemd offers a second-rate API for
> scheduling events, and b) we only have a couple of uses for an event
> scheduler, that we should therefore switch from a well-established API
> to a lousy API.  instead, if systemd can be made to support the cron
> API properly, it would be worth making it do so.
>
> barring that, or if it's too much work (likely), then if it saves us
> boatloads of disk to make the switch, and our use-cases don't lose
> functionality or correctness as a result, then i guess we should
> switch.
>
> but when systemd falls out of favor in a year or two we'll just have
> to change things again -- either to something new, or back to cron
> (which will most certainly still be available).
>
> paul
>
> gonzalo wrote:
>  > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net
> >wrote:
>  >
>  > > On 03/24/2013 09:38 AM, devel-request at lists.laptop.org wrote:
>  > >
>  > >> It's true, we need learn new tricks, but does not have sense have a
>  > >> service
>  > >> not needed on every xo, if we can do it in a better way.
>  > >>
>  > >
>  > > Does this logic apply generally?
>  > >
>  > > 12.1.0 has a control panel entry 'Modem configuration'. How many XOs
>  > > require this capability?
>  > >
>  > >
>  > Generally.
>  > In the case we are discussing, we don't need remove a feature,
>  > only implement it in a different way.
>  >
>  > Gonzalo
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