On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 06:17:34PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:

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>
> In my opinion, based on the "stuff" needed for Epoch, Runit and s6, I'm
> pretty sure you could have packages for each.
>
> The tricky part is that /sbin/init will need to be one or the other.
> Other than that, all three (and I assume sysvinit too) could coexist on
> a disk, and which you use is simply copying, let's say, init.epoch to
> init. My research during the Manjaro Experiments tells me that a mere
> symlink from init.epoch to init fails: I don't know why.
>

In principle, this could be manage through update-alternatives, as
already pointed out by several others here, in a previous thread. But
maybe these discussions are pointless until after Devuan Jessie stable
is out...

HND

KatolaZ

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