On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 18:01:43 -0700
Gregory Nowak <greg@???> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 06:18:09PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote:
> > If I might say so, I think that Devuan's short-term goal should be
> > to get a release out as soon as possible, as close to Debian Jesse
> > as possible.
>
> I agree with James and T.J. here. Devuan 1.0 should be debian 8 sans
> systemd.

Me too.

> As for which init system to use, I vote for sysvinit with
> sysvinit scripting.

Me too. I know how much effort needs to be put into alt-inits, and I'm
sure moving to a superior init like Epoch, s6 or runit is something
better done in a much later version. Sysvinit still has plenty of life
left in it, and we all have 15 years experience with it.

> This is what folks coming to devuan from debian
> wheezy will be familiar with, and I know that's what I would expect to
> find when installing/upgrading to devuan from wheezy.

> Those who want
> other init systems should know how to install them without having them
> forced on those of us who prefer what we're used to.

Yes we should. It's not that hard. And we should be ready, willing and
able to document our trials and tribulations and successes so that
*some day*, a long time from now, Devuan might choose a different init,
if so desired. There's no rush.

> > After that, I think that Devuan should focus on what would be
> > needed to provide user choice for the next release. This is just
> > my opinion, but I think that Devuan should pursue the goal that Ian
> > Jackson left Debian over: making sure that the user can use
> > whatever init they choose: be it System V, OpenRC or Systemd.

I personally wouldn't jump through any hoops to get it to work with
Systemd. First of all, if you want Devuan with Systemd, what you really
want is Debian. Second, just like runit or s6 or Epoch, let users who
want Systemd compile and install it extra-distro. If doing so is
anything like runit, s6 and Epoch, that's not hard at all.

But that's all in the future.

SteveT

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