On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 06:26 -0400, Boruch Baum wrote: > On 2016-05-18 12:11, Svante Signell wrote: > > > ... > > I'm listed as a co-maintainer of openrc (as well as ifupdown). > > However, due to > > the hostile environment in Debian I'm reluctant to do any serious > > work on these > > packages, except contributing to RC bugs being solved, to keep them > > in testing. > > > ... > > In my opinion the usage of init-system-helpers is wrong, why not > > use the package > > update system already available: update-alternatives? See also > > dpkg-divert. > > +1 > > The idea could be developed further, to use debian's proven > > 'update-alternatives' method for switching amongst init-systems.
What do you say, maybe we should create a package named init-freedom (suggested by jaromil/nexttime?) using the update-alternatives tool? That would override the debian init-system-helpers, which I find fairly obsolete, but it is probably there due to systemd-sysv. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
