Nick via Dng said on Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:09:01 +0100

>On 20-03-2025 21:57, Roy Bixler via Dng wrote:
>> Also, I fixed the subject to match the content, but I did wonder why
>> the only Devuan images I could find were an old "chimaera" AMI and a
>> few unofficial builds using "runit". I'm stuck with Debian for now,
>> except my desktop which is Devuan. I may experiment with "runit"
>> someday.
>>
>Afaik runit in Debian default uses the sysv-init scripts which does
>not give you the full advantage of the supervisor capabilities from
>runit.

If you're running runit as a supervisor only and not as an init system,
you still get the full advantage of supervisor capabilities of anything
you start up from runit.

>
>Probably another reason systemd wants to get rid of sysv-init scripts
>so other (better) init systems cannot use them any longer.

I wouldn't put this type of sabotage past them.


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