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Re: Would discussion of improving sysv-init be on topic?



On 14Oct16:1151-0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:

> It strikes me that there's actually very little that needs to be done.  In
> the short term, the world, including Debian, will continue to support
> sysvinit scripts - if only because the BSDs aren't going anywhere, I expect
> autotools will continue to build things with init scripts, logging to
> syslog, etc.
> 
> As far as I can tell, the major place that some work may be needed is in the
> Debian Installer - to make it easier to install a sysvinit based system.

I'd recommend someone take a close look at the assimilated
packages, especially udev, before this seat-of-the-pants
feasiblity study is deemed useful.
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