On Tue, 03 May 2016, Rob Owens wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "parazyd" <[email protected]> > > > On Tue, 03 May 2016, Rob Owens wrote: > > > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> > From: "KatolaZ" <[email protected]> > >> > >> > But do we really need all that complication? Couldn't we just leave > >> > the initscript of each init system in a different directory and *tell > >> > the init system* where they are to be found? This will allow a much > >> > easier coexistence of different confs. > >> > > >> > Basically, everything related to sysvinit, stays in /etc/init.d, and > >> > sysvinit knows it has to look there. OpenRC stuff stays in > >> > /etc/openrc, and openrc knows it has to look there for its scripts. > >> > WFTinit stuff will stay in /etc/wtf, and WTFInit knows it has to look > >> > there for its stuff. We add the next-init-system, it will have its > >> > scripts in /etc/<the-next-init-system-damn-name>. > >> > >> I agree with putting each init in its own directory, but sysvinit > >> should not own /etc/init.d. sysvinit stuff should go in /etc/sysvinit > >> and by default /etc/init.d should be a link to /etc/sysvinit/init.d. > >> The reason is that other init systems may expect to own /etc/init.d. > >> For instance, openrc puts all its scripts in /etc/init.d (at least on > >> Funtoo it does). > >> > >> Even though sysvinit is our default init system these days, we should > >> not design Devuan such that it is difficult to change that in the > >> future. So put sysvinit stuff in its own directory just like all the > >> other inits. > >> > > > > This is unnecessary. In OpenRC you can easily specify $SYSCONFDIR and > > set it to /etc/openrc. Then all will be found inside, and the system > > will already know what to do, without symlinking. > > Yes, but then when an openrc user wants to start/stop a service, he > cannot do '/etc/init.d/myservice start' like he could do on any other > OS using openrc. He'd have to do '/etc/openrc/myservice start'. Not a > really big deal, but I think it's undesirable to make Devuan's openrc > procedures different (especially when it could be addressed with a > simple symlink).
With OpenRC one actually has to do: `rc-service foo start` -- ~ parazyd 0333 7671 FDE7 5BB6 A85E C91F B876 CB44 FA1B 0274
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