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What will Artix's next init be?

I have tested all the inits and have chosen to stay with s6, but I would like to know if the minds behind Artix have plans for adding more inits and what they are.
"If anyone says that systemd is the best init, remember, a shit surrounded by several flies is still shit!"

Re: What will Artix's next init be?

Reply #1 –
Don't need others. Runit is enough!
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Re: What will Artix's next init be?

Reply #4 –
Im using openrc. but only because i know openrc very good because of gentoo.

I gived the other inits delivered by Artix a look too. But didnt see and didnt found a reason why one or the other is "better", "faster", what ever.

So i stay with the most me common one: openrc.

(but im open for infos why you prefer init system xyz).

Re: What will Artix's next init be?

Reply #5 –
Quote from: lennartpooppering – on
but I would like to know if the minds behind Artix have plans for adding more inits and what they are.

The main reason I added dinit in the first place was it is a "why not? let's add it!". However, my personal criteria to include an init system to Artix are threefold:
1. Is it unique enough?
2. Is it simple enough to implement?
3. Can I actually implement it personally first before branching out to others?

So there are a lot of alternative init systems apart from sinit, which @phoenix_king_rus has mentioned, such as nosh, finit, and of course, dinit. Nosh is a daemontools family and it has been filled by runit and s6 in Artix so I went straight to finit. I tried my hand on finit but failed, so dinit it is. It is quite new, unique, and actually rather simple to implement. So I just went with it as the 5th init system of Artix.

So, what's next for Artix? For me personally, I don't see anything interesting yet. But if others on the Developer team wants to (or anyone really) include yet another init system support (providing that they can maintain support for it and are reachable through regular communication channels), they certainly can, provided that they inform the core team first for approval and not just dropping the PKGBUILD to our buildserver catching us off-guard.
now only the dinit guy in artix

Re: What will Artix's next init be?

Reply #6 –
I mainly use s6 because I fell in love with it since the first day I realised it existed. I also would like to see GNU Shepherd https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/ in Artix, it's an init that is getting my attention like Guix is a distro I would like to try too.
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