Steve M said on Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:02:05 -0700


>the Devuan developers
>decided that there wasn't enough development resources to diverge from
>Debian's usrmerge and that the limited resources available were to be
>spent maintaining sysvinit.

I applaud the Devuan Developers concentrating on maintaining sysvinit.
It's this level of practical thinking that allowed Devuan to be born
and to survive.

This doesn't mean that we, as individuals, can't slowly, part by part,
begin replacing sysvinit functionalities with runit. On 9/3 at 7pm
Eastern Daylight time (New York time) at https://meet.jit.si/golug ,
I'll present user specific runit, which is a baby step toward
supervising or initting with runit.

Or, for that matter, s6 if you want to trade a little extra complexity
for some increased control.

Devuan doesn't fully support runit, but they have a package for it and
in no way make it difficult for *us* to use it on a Devuan machine.

Remember the good old days when *we* were masters of our computers?
Thanks to Devuan, the good old days are back.

SteveT

Steve Litt

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