When Debian acquires a properly working s6-rc package, the answer to my
question degenerates to "why not?" But for now, for the Debian person
who only installs via package, s6-rc is out of the question, so my
question was, isn't s6 itself good enough?
Then maybe you should ask Debian instead,
On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 2:30 PM Steve Litt wrote:
> So what do you all think? Is s6 a useful init system without s6-rc?
>
My 0.02 USD -- based on my experience of setting up a simple GNU/Linux
distribution from the ground up using s6, s6-rc, and s6-linux-init...
- s6-rc provides useful
Eliminate dependency on udevd from oneshot startup scripts.
One example among others:
Kernel events are used to automatically load dynamic kernel modules.
Say you need to mount a filesystem of a type that's not known in your
core kernel, but you have a module for that. Either you manually
Everybody appreciates the preceding two features, but personally, I
don't think they're absolutely necessary. Runit has neither, yet it
works just fine for most things.
It really depends on what "most things" are.
Small, server-only appliances? sure.
Distributions where you can start all the
On Sat, 5 Jan 2019 10:46:29 +
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
wrote:
> s6 and s6-rc are actually ports/packages in FreeBSD and s6 is a
> package in Debian. Alas, the Debian world has not yet caught up with
> the other toolsets, and the third-party Debian packaging for
> s6-linux-utils and the
