On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 01:31:59PM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote:

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> I admit I am just now starting down the rabbit hole of "understanding
> init systems" ... so this may be a dumb question.
>
> Is it possible during setup to choose the init system on the fly? I
> mean, we can choose Cinnamon / Mate / xfce / etc for the DE as it is (or
> all of them - although I expect having multiple competing init binaries
> is bad).
>
> Or are the various init systems "too different" from one another to
> allow this?

The different init system currently available on the market are really
"too different" to each other, but this does not mean that we
shouldn't try to find a way of providing the user with the possibility
of choosing which init system to use at config time, and possibly to
swap init systems on demand. This will probably require a lot of work,
but IMHO this is the niche where Devuan has something new to say, and
to show.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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