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Author: Svante Signell
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To: dng
New-Topics: [DNG] Runlevels and dist-upgrades
Subject: Re: [DNG] Runlevels (Was: Lead BusyBox developer on sysvinit)
On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 15:45 +0000, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Rainer Weikusat <rainerweikusat@???> wrote:
>
> > The abstract definition of 'runlevel' is (as far as I'm aware of it):
> > "Set of processes supposed to be running".
>
> That's what I understand it to be.


FYI: You might be interested in the problem of defining runlevels. Here is a
historical note (from the shepherd manual):

https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/manual/html_node/Runlevel-evolution.html#R
unlevel-evolution

Probably runlevels can be stated as a mathematical problem to solve. Has anybody
seen such an attempt somewhere?