On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote:
> Clint Adams <cl...@debian.org> writes: > > > As loath as I am to participate in this discussion, I have to ask if > > your intent is to suddenly outlaw all the packages which depend on > > runit. > > I don't think runit (or daemontools) are init systems. If you feel like > that may be ambiguous, we should say that explicitly. (This is one of the > problems with how to word matters around OpenRC, since in a way it's > actually closer to daemontools or runit. The latter just never attempted > to deal with *all* the startup scripts.) > Upstart running as a session init is not really an init system either, then, under that definition. Perhaps we should ban packages that depend on a certain init system being PID 1. Upstart, runit, daemontools, Circus, God etc. can run as session inits on top of any other init system, and therefore will have a small, confined effect when doing so and should be allowed. Regards, Cameron
