On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 08:38:44AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 10:27:53PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > > At the risk of adding another level of indirection, we could add a > > meta-init format that can generate an appropriate file for any of these. > > Are you aware of http://wiki.debian.org/MetaInit (packages metainit and > dh-metainit)? That work was started like eight years ago. Unfortunately > it didn't take off yet. The only package using it is infon. I was not. > > A meta-init format would make everyone equally happy (or miserable, > > depending on your point of view), which may be the best way to solve the > > problem. I fear that consolidation of interfaces is unlikely to occur. > > As far as I can tell Debian simply lacks the resources to do that. Maybe > Joachim Breitner can shed some light on this? I'm happy to work on this if need be. > Unless some consolidation of interfaces is going to happen, Debian will > simply be unable to support multiple init systems natively. Yes, it sounds like the issue is less of the init scripts themselves, and more how to interact with the init systems (the interfaces). Forcing everybody to use the same init system is going to make a lot of people very unhappy, as we've seen. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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