On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 09:38:36PM +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > > Just for my curiosity (not going to happen in my watch), would you be > > happier if `runit-helper` script was part of init-system-helpers (which > > is essential, anyway). > > I'm not sure why you didn't chose this at first. As it calls itself > "helper tools for all init systems". > I'm not saying I'm happy with init-system-helpers, but this already > exists for long and looks better.
I think unifying the functionality of this package with init-system-helpers would be preferable. But beyond just polluting the package namespace, I'm a bit annoyed by the stuff that this package leaves around the filesystem as well. In particular, /var/log/runit shouldn't exist on systems that don't even have runit installed. /etc/runit is similarly annoying. I think it'd be worthwhile to come up with a slightly more sophisticated mechanism for populating runit configuration on systems that actually need such configuration, while also eliminating noise on systems that don't need it. I'm happy to create a separate bug for the filesystem issues if you'd like to track them separately from the package name issues. noah
