OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like systems

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    The OpenRC init system

  • > It's also not a complete alternative, because it doesn't have anything for user session services like `systemd --user`.

    i am working on a implementation of that for openrc for a while now, it's been working nicely so far: https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/pull/573

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  • I've used this opportunity to look at some recent init files.

    Here's one of the first I stumbled upon.

    https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/blob/master/...

    It's 288 lines long; the LSB dependency nonsense is 8 lines of that.

    Then I looked up one for Postgres;

    https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Lsb_conforming_init_script

    This one is a whooping 356 lines long, LSB is again about 10 lines long, depending whether you count the header or not.

    I don't think the "LSB dependency" argument holds water.

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