Alf Gaida writes: > We need sysvinit for some non-linux things No: Hurd existed for a long time without using sysvinit/sysv-rc. I think sysvinit was only ported to Hurd in 2013 or 2014 (I didn't search much, but found a Summer of Code application from 2013 for this).
Having sysvinit might make things a bit easier for Hurd/kFreeBSD, but it's not an absolute requirement for such a port to exist. Ansgar
