On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 01:19:40AM +0200, parazyd wrote:
> The current init system is old. Ancient. We should all agree on it.
> Devuan is looking for a new init system that is not systemd and my
> personal choice for this task from now on is Gentoo's OpenRC.
>
> In Debian, years ago, effort was made to get OpenRC running. Utter fail.
> The developers kept the old LSB initscripts and made such an ugly job to
> make OpenRC work with them, while kicking out OpenRC initscripts from
> the way (which are, by the way, much more readable and elegant than LSB).
>
> I would like to revive this effort, and this time do it properly,
> keeping OpenRC in /etc/openrc/ along with its own initscripts. Each
> package that has its initscript would have to include a new,
> OpenRC-specific initscript. There are really no good arguments to use
> LSB initscripts with OpenRC.
>
> While it may not seem much, this task is not a one-person-job and
> therefore I am looking for co-maintainers of the OpenRC package for
> Devuan. Please let me know if you are interested in co-maintaining a new
> init system for Devuan with me.

Is there a summary of some sort explaining the various init systems,
how they're put together, how they work, and especially the salient
points on which they differ?

-- hendrik

>
> Cheers!
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