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Author: Noel Torres
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] OpenRC and Devuan
Steve Litt <slitt@???> escribió:
[...]
> I think the only daemons you really need in an installer are the
> gettys, sshd, wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd. And you'll probably want
> the display manager too. Those obviously must be included in packages.
> The more obscure stuff can exist first on the Wiki, and gradually be
> incorporated into the packages after they've been proven correct.


Better expressed that way :)
>
> What I was trying to do is shelter the poor maintainers from having a
> brand new job thrown at them, and having to learn about every init
> system out there (conspicuously excluding systemd).


Agreed
>
> At this point let me say this: It's waaaaay premature to speak of any
> change in the default init system. What I'm personally speaking of is
> alternate inits you can lay down on Devuan, for that minority of people
> who care what their init system is (as long as it's not an entangled
> monolith).


Yes, but Devuan packagers can (almost blindly) copy scripts from wiki
to packages, slowly, to allow that happen in a proper way.

[some things about how to package, with which I don't agree but that
aren't priority]
>
> Anyway, none of this is top priority: We're doing just fine with
> sysvinit, and the people who *really* want to alt-init already know how
> to do so, with or without Devuan packages to help them. Let those
> people do the pioneering work.


Agreed

Noel
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