On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 05:01:06AM +0100, Manuel A. Fern�ndez Montecelo wrote: > is it a feasible idea to make a, say, hurdinit package and then OR-ify > the dependences, [sysinit|hurdinit]?
Uh, no. It would make it "work" but it would not be the right thing at all. Instead spenting time with such horrible kludges, you should spent time working on the real solution if you want to help with this problem. If we are starting going down that route, we can do this for a dozen of other similar broken cases. I don't see why we should uglify our distribution even more just to deal with ugliness spilling over from Debian GNU/Linux. It is better to keep all additional ugliness needed to make it work on alpha.gnu.org. > the hurdinit pkg would be the dummy one used now, or maybe an special > init for the system, i don't kow. Well, if you were to develop a nice init system (doesn't need to be specific to the Hurd) that works on the Hurd, we can use that. I am not sure how Debian dependencies would look for that. Currently, it seems that even if you don't use sysvinit, you need to have it installed (don't know why). > i think that a better idea may be fix the outstanding bugs, including > this (i've already seen Marcus' solution) Note: By now the patch I sent in for sysvinit is not only out of date, I think the sysvinit I produced back then doesn't work on current Hurd systems. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
