On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 03:30:51PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > the hurdinit pkg would be the dummy one used now, or maybe an special > > init for the system, i don't kow.
You made me thinking. The Hurd has an init system (it's /hurd/init, and it starts /libexec/rc at run time, which in turn starts the servers in the Debian packages). Depending on _why_ the packages depend on sysvinit, it might be enough to depend on sysvinit only on Debian GNU/Linux systems. In this case, the packages have to be changed to add sysvinit to the dependencies by the dpkg-substvars mechanism in debian/rules depending on the architecture they are built for. But the reason why they depend on sysvinit might be many, and I don't have an overview of what the common reasons are. That I ported sysvinit at all was a kludge for Debian GNU/Hurd by itself: The Hurd doesn't really need it. 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
