On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:33 PM, Didier Kryn <k...@in2p3.fr> wrote: > Le 18/06/2015 17:23, Laurent Bercot a écrit : >> Absolutely. Why enforce exclusion when you can have a choice ? >> Make a "currently active" vs. "inactive" switch, I don't know the >> Debian/Devuan terminology, and allow users to install both. > > > There's already an exemple of that kind: you may have xdm, gdm3, kdm and > lightdm installed; you decide which is the one in effect by running > dpkg-reconfigure any-of-them.
Yup, assuming the kernel-to-init code understands chained symlinks it would be relatively easy to port all init systems to the "alternatives" feature : The generic name is not a direct symbolic link to the selected alternative. Instead, it is a symbolic link to a name in the alternatives directory, which in turn is a symbolic link to the actual file referenced. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng