Re: Removing conflicts of init system
On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 02:58:15PM +0000, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> [2018-12-21 11:31] Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
> > You might consider submitting a patch to GRUB to add runit to that list,
> > or better yet making that behavior look for symlinks in /lib/inits/ or
> > similar and make an entry for every link that doesn't match /sbin/init.
> > (If you do so with fallbacks to the existing entries for systemd and
> > sysvinit, that'll make a transition simpler, and GRUB can remove the
> > fallbacks as soon as systemd and sysvinit add links in /lib/inits/.)
> >
> > Does that sound reasonable?
>
> Sorry, it does not. Why maintain list of special cases, if alternatives
> provide systematic solution?
Explicit boot loader support is useful in any case because if your
system fails to boot after switching init then you need a way to switch
back. (Yes, this is a special case of boot problems that need rescue
media; but switching init is an easily-foreseeable special case where
teething problems are more likely than usual, and the cost of offering
the option is negligible.)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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