openrc-services package

[Steve Litt]

Martin Steigerwald said on Thu, 06 Jun 2024 22:36:42 +0200

>Hi Mark.
>
>Mark Hindley - 06.06.24, 19:32:20 CEST:
>> On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 02:44:32PM +0200, Matthias Geiger wrote:  
>> > I am considering creating a openrc-services package.  
>> 
>> I have to admit to not being very excited by this prospect. With full
>> appreciation of Matthew's work on orphan-sysvinit-scripts and without
>> any implied criticism at all, I still believe the very best place for
>> startup scripts is within the relevant packages.  
>
>I understand and agree.

I disagree for practical reasons. We can't count on either the
"upstreams" or the distro developer package creators can be counted on
to make/include any scripts. The only way to ensure that scripts for
the various inits are available to users is to package them all
together. And I suggest besides the Debian package, you also publish a
tarball so users of *all* distros can have them, even if their distro
is sabotaging particular init systems.

SteveT

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