On Sun, 6 Jan 2019 09:03:33 -0600 Brett Neumeier <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 2:30 PM Steve Litt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > So what do you all think? Is s6 a useful init system without s6-rc? > > > [snip] > - The cost of using s6-rc is negligible. As installed on my x86_64 > system with documentation, it consumes around 576 *kilobytes* of > storage space. It compiles and installs in substantially less than a > minute. [snip] > > So ... costs ~= 0, benefits > 0, to me the question of whether s6 is > useful _without_ s6-rc is kind of pointless. > > I'm inclined to turn the question around: what leads you to want to > avoid s6-rc? 1) Apparently Debian doesn't yet have an s6-rc package 2) s6-rc adds more features and complexity I don't want to avoid s6-rc. If I had s6, I'd probably use s6-rc. But I have runit, which at a casual glance is like s6 without s6-rc, and everything works fine for me. 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? SteveT Steve Litt January 2019 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust
