In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 06:57, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> However, if you read the paper in http://people.d.o/~hmh, and implement the >> demultiplexer, we could probably modify one of the above methods to work >> well, while we implement ours... > >After hearing your talk about init systems at debconf and reading your >paper, I switched an embedded machine from using busybox init to >simpleinit from util-linux, which supports 'need', 'provide', etc. It >reduced the 70s boot time by approximately 10s.
Now that sysvinit has been split into 3 packages, it would be possible to replace one part (sysv-rc) with something that does exactly that. Mike. -- Never trust a statistic you didn't fake yourself.