[Fedora-packaging] Re: Requiring xinetd when placing files into /etc/xinetd.d

[Enrico Scholz]

Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> writes:

> A package like git-daemon on the other hand, which is a subpackage
> specifically designed to provide an xinetd service, really ought to
> require xinetd to give a good experience out of the box, correct?

no; you can use it with every inetd like program. E.g. placing something
like

| start on starting local
| respawn
| exec /sbin/busybox tcpsvd 0 1234 /usr/bin/git-daemon ...

into /etc/event.d/git-daemon provides an alternative way to invoke
git-daemon and it's not more work than editing the xinetd setup.


Keeping stuff configurable and do not require stuff which is not needed
for core functionality is a good thing...



Enrico