On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 10:36:25PM +0100, KatolaZ 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.
How many of these init systems *have* to run as pid 1? How many are perfectly happy handling a subset of services withoug being pod 1? I think we should focus on init systems that can coexist, being started by a specific one of them, perhaps a really trivial, reliable one. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
