openRC and Runit user services (was: Re: openRC user services)

[Martin Steigerwald]

Hi Matthias, hi,

Matthias Geiger - 31.03.25, 22:56:22 CEST:
> as you might know, openRC 0.68 gained support for user services.
> This is a huge improvement IMO, and I would like to get wider adoption
> of openRC. Because this is fairly new, not much services have been
> written. An example can be seen here: [0]

Thanks for your initiative.

For completeness:

Lorenzo has implemented experimental user service support for Runit as 
well. I installed it already and it initializes for X11. Lorenzo also 
already fixed it up to initialize on Wayland, but I did not test that yet.

Currently I am not yet using them. I still start Pipewire by Alpine's 
(previous?) XDG auto start approach. I think I mentioned it here before.

But I plan to convert Pipewire and possibly other user services to Runit's 
new user service support. I see this work for Forky however, not for 
Trixie anymore.

As a conversation with Mark Handley already revealed OpenRC user services 
are implemented by upstream. Runit's user services are Lorenzo's idea 
currently.

Best,
-- 
Martin