I can't post to arch-dev-public and like Lukas [0] I feel guilty about not getting involved when I should've. Despite the absence of it in the repos do you (Tom) still stand by your claim [1] that there is nothing stopping someone from using initscripts in the far future? I'll admit that part of the reason I want to stick with initscripts is because I'm a stubborn bastard. But I didn't think the package would be dropped unless a large number of bugs presented themselves. The initscripts package I'm using is only two commits behind upstream so it is almost like I'm "testing" the newest version. If I had volunteered to test patches (even though I don't have interesting use cases like RAID / LVM) would there have actually been patches to test? There are two forks out now. One aims to add features left and right [2]. The other is a simpler fork that seems more future proof [3]. I am thinking of using the latter. Of course the maintainer could do something stupid later on, but so far he hasn't mentioned any crazy plans like recompiling everything that needs udev. Is this my best bet or do you think there are reasons to stick with the unsupported initscripts from git? [0] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-February/024388... [1] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2012-September/02366... [2] https://github.com/fluxer/initscripts [3] https://bitbucket.org/TZ86/initscripts-fork