On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 09:27:05AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:19:59 +0100
> KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 07:22:49PM -0700, James Powell wrote:
> > > Yes, but I mean alts like s6, Runit, etc. In the past these were
> > > left to the users to make for themselves. For these to be viable,
> > > they need full script sets ready to go.
> > >
> >
> > If one had infinite energy available, everything would be possible in
> > zero time...
> >
> > You guys talk about supporting half a dozen init systems like it was
> > similar to providing half a dozen different editors, which believe me
> > is not quite the case.
>
> That wasn't what I was saying at all. I think something got lost in the
> top-posting.
>
> All I said was that individual users could, if they'd like, alt-init
> their Devuan machines. And I also later said that if we alt-initters
> made good notes, then if and when Devuan decided to switch to a
> different init (*one* different init), they'd have a path to follow.
>
> I said nothing about who would make/maintain init scripts, run scripts,
> Epoch config files, etc. That's a question for much, much later.

You're arguing for setting up the framework that makes it possible,
rather than to do the heavy lifting. It would also provide those who
want to make various package-maintainers a path to follow to make
their packages suitable for multiple inits, in case they whould choose
to do so.

-- hendrik

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