sysvinit VS initng VS upstart VS launchd (Was: Future New Init for FC7?)

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Fri Apr 6 21:11:53 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 20:02 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > 
> > I may be wrong, but I don't think that any user will chose another init 
> > system than the default init system unknowingly.
> 
> The problem is not that the user would unknowingly install a different 
> init system (They could install any packages without understanding it 
> but that is not a init system specific issue so we needn't discuss that 
> in this thread).
> 
> The problem is that users wouldn't know that the init system they are 
> installing wont work with several packages because these don't provide 
> the init scripts that work with the alternative init system they just 
> installed. If basic integration was not done, the alternative init 
> system would result in non-functional packages, crashes or worse non 
> booting systems.
> 
che can correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the user of a new init
system such as initng has to install the new init *and* manually
configure the commandline in grub to boot with the alternate init.  So I
really think you're overstating the "non-functionalness" here.
Moreover, since SysVinit is nearly impossible to remove from the system
without pulling an esr, if I "break" it, all I have to do to unbreak it
is edit the grub entry and remove the init= line.

-Toshio
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