Steve Litt wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 22:36:25 +0100
> KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 01:31:59PM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote:
> >
> > [cut]
> >
> > > 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.
>
> 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.
>
Anyone know of any "so, you want to change your init system, for dummies"
guides?

Wouldn't mind trying to make myself useful and look into what can be
done about them.

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