openrc questions

[matthias.geiger1024 at tutanota.de]

 Hi Thorsten,


> And this will break things that work now.
Sure, I'm not advocating anyone should switch immediately. I just think that alternatives should be explored. I hope one day debian provides an init option in dinstaller.


> There’s a whole GR to support that, not that certain package
> maintainers follow that…
>
Dou you mean the GR where a decision was made to focus on systemd (for now) and look into alternatives?

I'd also like to ask why openrc doesn't ship its own ("native") version of initsscripts (agetty, bootmisc, etc.). It's present in the source but I couldn't find anything in d/rules or in the package that it ships those.

Regards,

werdahias

5. Feb. 2023, 23:14 von t.glaser at tarent.de:

> On Sun, 5 Feb 2023, matthias.geiger1024 at tutanota.de wrote:
>
> >I take it (by a wide margin) most of people on this list use sysvinit. My questions:
>
>>
>>
> >- Is there a specific reason you use it over openrc ?
>
> It has existed for a very long time and does not change anything
> needlessly. I actually dislike sysvinit, but the alternatives in
> Debian are worse. This is mostly for muscle memory (and reliability
> over the “modern” one), and keeping things working.
>
> >The way I see it, openrc has some advantages over sysvinit:
>
> Maybe, but it’s a new thing, and it’s got problems, such as the
> differing init script syntax. They also limit it to /bin/sh…
>
> >It has a dependency based startup, ordering of services
>
> sysvinit+sysv-rc has that as well…
>
>> and (imho) a saner init script syntax.
>>
>
> I actually just looked and, let’s just say ugh. Tastes differ.
> And this will break things that work now.
>
> >I would like for openrc to be better/more integrated.
>
> Sure, work on that, but keep sysvinit working and supported.
> There’s a whole GR to support that, not that certain package
> maintainers follow that…
>
> bye,
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