On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 22:36:25 +0100 KatolaZ <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 01:31:59PM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: > > [cut] > > > I admit I am just now starting down the rabbit hole of > > "understanding init systems" ... so this may be a dumb question. > > > > Is it possible during setup to choose the init system on the fly? I > > mean, we can choose Cinnamon / Mate / xfce / etc for the DE as it > > is (or all of them - although I expect having multiple competing > > init binaries is bad). > > > > Or are the various init systems "too different" from one another to > > allow this? > > The different init system currently available on the market are really > "too different" to each other, but this does not mean that we > shouldn't try to find a way of providing the user with the possibility > of choosing which init system to use at config time, and possibly to > swap init systems on demand. This will probably require a lot of work, > but IMHO this is the niche where Devuan has something new to say, and > to show. In my opinion, based on the "stuff" needed for Epoch, Runit and s6, I'm pretty sure you could have packages for each. The tricky part is that /sbin/init will need to be one or the other. Other than that, all three (and I assume sysvinit too) could coexist on a disk, and which you use is simply copying, let's say, init.epoch to init. My research during the Manjaro Experiments tells me that a mere symlink from init.epoch to init fails: I don't know why. Alternately, the init= in grub could be changed, but this is a GARGANTUAN pain in the butt to do every time. SteveT Steve Litt June 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
