On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 11:35:20PM +0200, Anto wrote:
> As above, I am still using sysvinit from Debian wheezy. And I held
> util-linux to the above version. As far as I remember, I got problems using
> util-linux higher than that version. I forgot the exact the problems.
>
> What I am wondering is that, why Devuan is using sysvinit-core instead of
> sysvinit? Could we not just bring forward sysvinit from Debian wheezy for
> Devuan jessie? As far as I understood, sysvinit-core was introduced as the
> workaround to use SysV init in Debian jessie instead of the default init
> (which name should not be mentioned). If my understanding is wrong, is that
> because of the changes on util-linux? If not, what are technical reasons
> behind that, a part from staying very close to Debian jessie?

The reason for the rename is that, with sysvinit/wheezy being essential,
there was no way to install an alternate init system as default. In jessie,
the essential package is "init" instead, which lists supported init systems,
them being systemd-sysv, sysvinit-core and upstart (openrc replaces sysv-rc
but not sysvinit).

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(https://github.com/kilobyte/braillefont for this hack)