On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 10:36:25PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote:
> 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.

How many of these init systems *have* to run as pid 1? How many are
perfectly happy handling a subset of services withoug being pod 1? I
think we should focus on init systems that can coexist, being started
by a specific one of them, perhaps a really trivial, reliable one.

-- hendrik