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Keep Your Damn Process Management out of My Software Packages!
bucking the conventions I hereby put the tk;dr at the top of the page, to save you time
tl;dr USE DAEMONTOOLS
Anyway, I get paid the aeron chair money to manage software releases for a giant internet company. We push packages out to thousands of servers on pretty much a daily basis. I've learned a few things about large scale software packaging along the way. Today's topic of discussion: process management.
There's a natural tendency to conflate software packaging and process management. After all, if you install a package, you probably want to actually run the enclosed software, right? If this is a server then your software package is probably a service that
describe why including process management in software packages is a terrible idea, suggest alternatives.
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/ch09s04s05.html
http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-first.en.
http://redmine.stbuehler.de/projects/debianserver/wiki/Daemontools
