It is a little too confusing trying to install openrc at the moment so I will pass for now...
It is just a shame that the runit-init package was taken down... On 06/30/2017 06:46 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 21:45:23 +0200 > Joachim Fahrner <j...@fahrner.name> wrote: > >> Am 2017-06-30 19:16, schrieb Steve Litt: >> >>> Would it be possible for you to install OpenRC from upstream >>> source? I know that's easily doable with runit or s6, but I know >>> little about OpenRC. >> I'm wondering why there are lots of discussions about init systems. >> What is wrong with sysv init? My notebook is booting (from ssd) >> within 8 seconds. Nothing I would complain about. > sysvinit works, always has. It's a good, workable init system. And it's > for certain better than systemd unless 99% of your priority is boot > time. > > Now let me explain why I personally prefer runit instead of sysvinit... > > * sysvinit requires those gigantic and messy init scripts, whereas > runit requires only a 10 line run script, give or take. > > * sysvinit depends on PID files that can make things go wrong in > difficult to understand ways. Runit has no PID files. > > * With runit, if you write a daemon program, your daemon program > doesn't need to background itself nor tell the init system that it's > ready. > > * I find runit more adaptable to varied usages than sysvinit. > > * With runit, I can look in one directory and easily see all my > daemons, with easy names that don't look like S50-whatever > > * Runit's sv command does all the stuff needed by the five mandatory > sections of a sysvinit script. > > * Runit doesn't require the commented out special numbers and stuff > that sysvinit init scripts do. > > * Runit is much less than thirty two years old. Although both you and I > know sysvinit's age doesn't make it one micron less competent, it's > much easier to argue that runit is better than systemd rather than > arguing that sysvinit is better than systemd. This benefit, of > course, is purely rhetoric and political, and in fact I think > sysvinit is MUCH better than systemd. > > * It's really a matter of personal preference, and it's easy to switch > between sysvinit and runit. > > By the way, everything I said about runit goes equally for the s6 init > system. > > > > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
