On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 1:18 PM, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 8:16 AM Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 3:56 PM, David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] >> <dkas...@redhat.com> wrote: >> > Hello people, >> > >> > I'm working on making Fedora being able to function completely without the >> > 'initscripts' package (hopefully) some day in the future. I have done some >> > cleanup in initscripts recently, and I would like to ask maintainers of >> > packages listed below to check if their package(s) still really need the >> > initscripts package to function properly (for any reason). >> > >> > It seems that for many packages the requirement of initscripts is just a >> > leftover from past. If the package does not need the initscripts any >> > longer, >> > please remove the requirement in Rawhide (F29) and forward. (Do not >> > backport >> > this change into F28 or F27, it would break things.) >> > >> > NOTE: In case you are depending on initscripts because of networking >> > scripts >> > (ifup/ifdown, etc.), then you will need to update your specfile to depend >> > directly on new package 'network-scripts' (instead of 'initscripts'). >> >> It would be useful to do a similar change for chkconfig and split out >> the alternatives binaries into a separate package as a bunch of the >> chkconfig stuff is directly related to sys V and the initscripts >> package. >> > > Since chkconfig can be used to manipulate systemd units indirectly, I > don't think that's quite so necessary. However, it might make sense > for the service(8) command implementation to be subpackaged in > initscripts so that it can be installed without the legacy stuff.
Yes, it can be, it's not necessary though and the package as it stands contains a lot of legacy stuff and is strictly optional. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LBSAOMQ2YROGKVFVIPFBUMC4LJ4TRAXJ/
