On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 11:44:33AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Elena ``of Valhalla'' valhalla-l@trueelena.org wrote:
Openrc is included in Debian.
It was one of the candidates considered when deciding what init system to adopt, altought it had much less support than systemd or upstart (and I suspect it's even less tested than sysvinit).
yeahh it was a pity it hadn't had as much mindshare: i've installed it by default on the parabola gnu/linux-libre eoma68-a20 images and, whilst it works well, it feels a little... odd. perhaps that's down to being unfamiliar with it, or that parabola / archlinux requires that if you install e.g. openssh you have to remember to install openssh-openrc and then also run a manual command to make sure it's enabled at boot time (pacman lacks the postinst functionality of dpkg, and archlinux itself seems to lack the concept of setting up "default configured behaviour" for services, leaving that to the user themself).
one good thing: i wasn't aware that openrc could be parallelised: it's as simple as adding rc_parallel="YES" to /etc/openrc.conf which i will try out very shortly.
Likewise is Debian's variant of sysvinit (and systemd, of course).