>James Powell Thu, 06 Aug 2015 01:02:56 -0700 >Currently Debian packages contains both systemd units and init scripts. >However, Debian developers refused to support several init systems. So it's >only a matter of time when they remove init scripts from packages.What will >Devuan developers do when it happens? We can use sysvinit and Devuan because >these init scripts exist
Honestly? I think that it is a "no brainer" as my brothers would say. I do agree, but with a proviso. I think that System 5 init scripts will disappear from Debian packages while systemd becomes the Debian standard. Please do not think badly of me when I say this, but the subject has been "beat to death" many times in the past on the DNG list. On many occasions I've commented that I think init scripts should be provided entirely separate from the other files that Debian bundles them with, so that the user might select whatever init they want to use. I see no technical reason why Devuan cannot detect whatever init is installed and then select the appropriate init scripts as a package or meta-package. The majority of the repository is applications - which have nothing to do with the init process, so it would only be a limited number of upstream Debian packages that would have to be modified or replaced in this way. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
