[arch-projects] [initscripts] So it's gone

Ivailo xakepa10 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 14 22:21:53 EST 2013


@Connor Behan
No offense taken, it's your call.


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Connor Behan <connor.behan at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 14/02/13 04:42 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> > However, in the long-run I see this getting increasingly hard as
> > various third-party software drop workarounds that would be needed for
> > initscripts but not for systemd.
> This is why it makes sense to favour systemd as a distro. But I am quite
> certain the software I use will not introduce systemd as a hard dependency.
> > Probably not. We would need bug reports and people actually writing
> > the patches too. I don't expect a huge amount of work being necessary,
> > but for instance with the recent changes to lvm, it makes sense that
> > something needs to be updated in initscripts too.
> Exactly. I consider myself capable of "maintaining" a package for
> initscripts. By that I mean writing patches when / if bugs are reported
> by other users rather than booting in many configurations and "looking"
> for bugs. I think this is the approach that Aleksey is taking with fork
> [3].
> > One important feature of the current initscripts (IMNSHO) which [3]
> > seems to want to drop is compatibility with systemd. This is what will
> > make initscripts simple to maintain, and what will make sure the
> > generic Arch documentation also applies to initscripts to the degree
> > possible, so dropping it is a big mistake in my eyes.
> I don't think the fork will ever conflict with systemd. It just has the
> changes that will allow it to still work for the more fanatical users. I
> will use and contribute to the AUR packages "sysvinit-scripts" and
> "initscripts-fork" which is fork [3] as suggested. Sorry Ivailo but
> given the things you want to change, fork [2] does not appeal to me.
> Good luck with it!
> > Oh, and once you find this practical need, please let me know, as I'd
> > be interested in any use-cases that systemd does not cover :-)
> >> [2] https://github.com/fluxer/initscripts
> >> [3] https://bitbucket.org/TZ86/initscripts-fork
> My needs are probably the ones you've heard before and do not consider
> practical :-). I like editing one file instead of many and I don't just
> mean rc.conf. I laugh at the proposition that I should split up my
> xorg.conf file into many xorg.conf.d files. But I shouldn't start a
> rant. Thanks for the answers!
>
>
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