Re: The future of the boot system in Debian

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Rene Mayrhofer]
> Please don't. As you correctly pointed out, the current Debian init
> architecture is one of the most painful and outdated (not to say
> broken) parts in the whole system. It's really time to move away
> from old cruft (and I consider inittab to be cruft of little use at
> this time) and start using something that will not cause more pain
> in the future.

I guess we were a bit unclear.  The point is to use it for upgrades
(ie when it exist), while not installing /etc/inittab for new
installs, thus slowly getting rid of the file while ensuring the
switch do not affect upgrades negatively. :)

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen