0.94 first impressions

[Andy Green]

On Monday 29 September 2003 05:51, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Craig Ringer (craig at postnewspapers.com.au) said:
> > It would not be at all difficult to have the hardware auto-detect
> > happen quite transparently, just as if it were off the CD - just
> > do it during firstboot. You could always re-run the same
> > detection later, too, as a nice bonus.
>
> Technically, that's a shade late, unless you're restarting portions
> of the initscripts afterwards. :)

If initscripts are the main issue, maybe a reworking along the lines 
of the make-based thing mentioned on Slashdot could kill two birds 
with the one stone (the second unfortunate bird being boot time):

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/18/224207&mode=thread&tid=106&tid=136&tid=185&tid=187

In this kind of structure a rerun of 'the initscripts' would just do 
the differential actions needed considering the change in machine 
state, if any.

-Andy