On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 01:19:40AM +0200, parazyd wrote: > The current init system is old. Ancient. We should all agree on it. > Devuan is looking for a new init system that is not systemd and my > personal choice for this task from now on is Gentoo's OpenRC. > > In Debian, years ago, effort was made to get OpenRC running. Utter fail. > The developers kept the old LSB initscripts and made such an ugly job to > make OpenRC work with them, while kicking out OpenRC initscripts from > the way (which are, by the way, much more readable and elegant than LSB). > > I would like to revive this effort, and this time do it properly, > keeping OpenRC in /etc/openrc/ along with its own initscripts. Each > package that has its initscript would have to include a new, > OpenRC-specific initscript. There are really no good arguments to use > LSB initscripts with OpenRC. > > While it may not seem much, this task is not a one-person-job and > therefore I am looking for co-maintainers of the OpenRC package for > Devuan. Please let me know if you are interested in co-maintaining a new > init system for Devuan with me.
Is there a summary of some sort explaining the various init systems, how they're put together, how they work, and especially the salient points on which they differ? -- hendrik > > Cheers! > > -- > ~ parazyd > 0333 7671 FDE7 5BB6 A85E C91F B876 CB44 FA1B 0274 > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
