Runit rocks! IMHO it's one of the very best init systems, and I doubt
it would be difficult for a Devuan end user to retrofit with runit.

I don't know Patrick's or Devuan's opinion of the http://unlicense.org/
style Public Domain, but if it's acceptable, Epoch, while not quite as
full featured as runit, is a dead-bang easy way to add another init to
your system.

These two init systems are much easier to add to uncontaminated distros
like Slackware and Devuan.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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On Wed, 20 May 2015 21:25:51 +0000
James Powell <james4591@???> wrote:

> Currently work is being made to offer alternatives to sysvinit in
> Slackware such as OpenRC and Runit, as they are the most complete
> init replacement systems. Work has been slow in progress, but there
> are solid efforts to bring offerings around over at LinuxQuestions.
> We have been met with resistance, but so far, we are still somewhat
> active in the efforts.
>
> To: james4591@???; dng@???
> Subject: RE: [Dng] Slackware systemd creepin in maybe?
> From: yvesjv@???
> Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 05:28:46 +1000
>
> Hi James,
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Keeping Slack stable is the reason why some have picked this
> excellent distro instead of a bsd during the mass migration away from
> the systemd/Debian debacle. Sure hope the same fiasco that occurred
> with systemd/Debian does not happen with Slack in future.
>
> IMHO, that would be very destructive to Slackware :-(
>
>
> Thanks again and keep slacking.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Powell" <james4591@???>
> To:"Anto" <aryanto@???>, <yvesjv@???>,
> <dng@???> Cc:
> Sent:Tue, 19 May 2015 14:18:40 -0700
> Subject:RE: [Dng] Slackware systemd creepin in maybe?
>
>
>
> Hey guys, let me clarify the Slackware position on systemd.
>
>
> Patrick has no intent on enforcing the usage of systemd upon
> Slackware and it's users unless it becomes an unavoidable issue. So
> far, this has not been the case in the slightest, and we doubt it
> will be. Slackware intends to keep the bsd-stylized sysvinit
> implementation.
>
>
> Packages do have some systemd files for systemd systems, but because
> all packages in Slackware try to stay as vanilla as possible to
> "./configure && make && make install" methodology. You are free to
> remove them after-the-fact, or modify the Slackbuild scripts to
> remove them during the package construction stages.
>
>
> There is a systemd experimental repackage of Slackware called
> Dlackware by a package developer named bartgymnast, but while the
> repack is specific to systemd, it is unsupported, unofficial, and
> still considered unstable in build.
>
>
> I hope this clarifies this.
>
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
>
>
> From:
> Anto
> Sent:
> ‎5/‎19/‎2015 12:14 PM
> To:
> yvesjv@???;
> dng@???
> Subject:
> Re: [Dng] Slackware systemd creepin in maybe?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 19/05/15 20:31, yvesjv@??? wrote:
>
> >
>
> > Hi Anto,
>
> >
>
> > From your posts it appears that you are doing a lot of work
> > cleaning
>
> > up these packages.
>
> >
>
> > Apologies if I've missed a previous post as I think it would be
>
> > extremely helpful to all interested if you documented your
> > invaluable
>
> > work on a wiki of sorts?
>
> >
>
> > Perhaps more could assist with the cleanups :-)
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > Thanks
>
> >
>
>
> Yes, it has been quite a lot of work for me, especially due to the
> lack
>
> of my skills in the programming and Debian packaging as I am just an
>
> ordinary user. So what I have been doing is basically trial and
> error :)
>
>
> Change something, re-compile, revert back when fails, again and again
>
> until the packages get successfully compiled. But that is not the end
> of
>
> it. The installation of the packages that have been successfully
>
> compiled are not always smooth. I broke my install several times. But
> I
>
> didn't spend time to troubleshoot, again due to the lack of my
> skills.
>
> After taking some logs and notes on something which I thought might
> be
>
> related to the changes that I made. I put back the disk image which I
>
> always take before any installation, then start all over again :)
>
>
> So I think that is quite embarrassing, especially for Devuan (for me,
> I
>
> don't really care) if that kind of process would be documented some
>
> where on Devuan site :)
>
>
> I have leant a lot by reading the commits on Devuan gitlab,
> especially
>
> the ones with the title related to "removing systemd" like
> https://git.devuan.org/packages-base/dbus/commit/2ebb243f3fa51790d93e7f21a11dca324df6b0fd,
>
> https://git.devuan.org/packages-base/network-manager/commit/665eb3cb32e9ca3f4294f783375e4118d9b78427
>
>
> and many others.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Anto
>
>
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