----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Litt" <slitt@???>

> On Tue, 3 May 2016 10:06:07 -0400 (EDT)
> Rob Owens <rowens@???> wrote:
>
>> I agree with putting each init in its own directory, but sysvinit
>> should not own /etc/init.d. sysvinit stuff should go in /etc/sysvinit
>> and by default /etc/init.d should be a link to /etc/sysvinit/init.d.
>> The reason is that other init systems may expect to own /etc/init.d.
>> For instance, openrc puts all its scripts in /etc/init.d (at least on
>> Funtoo it does).
>
> I don't remember any other init wanting to use /etc/init.d, EXCEPT
> OpenRC, or EXCEPT when they want to use the sysvinit init scripts, and
> the only one I know that wants to do that is systemd.
>
> I wouldn't change sysvinit's expected files one little bit. Everyone
> assumes that /etc/init.d belongs exclusively to sysvinit. Any change to
> sysvinit would require lots of testing, and who needs that headache?
>
Then you would be designing under the assumption that sysvinit is the
"one true way" and that all others must be modified to work around
sysvinit -- an init system that you/we are actively attempting to make
obsolete (eventually) by way of providing all these alternatives. This
doesn't make a lick of sense.

>> Even though sysvinit is our default init system these days, we should
>> not design Devuan such that it is difficult to change that in the
>> future. So put sysvinit stuff in its own directory just like all the
>> other inits.
>
> If you leave sysvinit's directories exactly as they exist now,
> switching back and forth between sysvinit and runit is trivial. Same is
> true of s6 and Epoch.
>
It is also trivial to do with a symlink.

> Because OpenRC has seen fit to intermix their init scripts
> with sysvinit's in /etc/init.d, I'd suggest that any files needed by
> OpenRC be kept somewhere besides /etc/init.d.
>
I have only used openrc on Funtoo, but there is no intermixing with
sysvinit there. It is exclusively openrc in /etc/init.d. Are you using
a distro where /etc/init.d contains both openrc scripts and sysvinit
scripts?

-Rob