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by wpietri 1419 days ago
I like this part:

> I don't think this package makes sense from a semantics point of view; it is more logical to provide the policy scripts classified by service, no matter whether or not the implementation of the service is done by busybox.

That's a lesson I see learned over and over. Something like, "Group by meaning, not mechanism."

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It's one of the many system factoring challenges. It's difficult to define a hard and fast rule as to which is better. Often some combination of the two is ideal, particularly as the system grows.
Is this so that you don’t end up creating the wrong abstraction when inevitably over time the meaning changes and you end up special casing the implementation?