"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> writes: > Bollocks, it isn't important to GNU/Hurd nor does it _need_ it, since > it doesn't follow the philosophy of GNU. It might be important to > Debian GNU/Hurd, but if you meant that then say so. I'm not suce which "philosophy of GNU" you mean. It is true that I have long disfavored the sysv style of init system, but it also seems to me that Debian should use the same basic userland whatever the kernel is. Thomas