On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 22:53:58 +0100
KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:

> You see, in less then 10 emails there are 10 different opinions about
> which TheBest init system to adopt in a future Devuan :)
>
> The only way to avoid useless flames on the topic, which will surely
> cause friction, and discomfort, and pain, and resentment, is to jump
> over the problem at once and work all together to allow averyone to
> use the init of his/her choice with Devuan.
>
> This will surely entail a massive amount of extra work, but will set
> Devuan neatly apart from all the other distributions, and allow it to
> considerably widen its potential user base. Maybe Devuan will really
> be albe to show what "Universal operating system" should mean
> nowadays... ;)


My experience with init systems is mostly limited sysV init (well,
also busybox and system d). That said, I wonder, what information any
arbitrary init system would need, that can not be delivered e.g. in a
simple XML file, packaged with the daemon.

Seriously, what else besides dependencies on other daemons that have to
be running and some testing for the existence of certain (everything is)
files would be necessary to pass to a parser script, which could be
packaged with the respective init system?

Somewhat stunned,

Florian