On 10 October 2014 09:25, Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:

On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 07:46:36PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> ISTM that if neither upstart nor systemd deliver the goods once
> finished, then a third new offering will arise. Parallel starting of
> services, and effective handling of events will be provided, one way or
> another, I expect.

that's the problem with systemd - once it takes over, this "third new
offering" will never happen because in order to have even a chance of
success it will not only have to do init's job, it will have to do
dozens of other unrelated tasks. and it will have to do them *ALL* from
the very first version.

uselessd (the useless daemon, or the daemon that uses less... depending on your viewpoint) is a project to reduce systemd to a base initd, process supervisor and transactional dependency system, while minimizing intrusiveness and isolationism. Basically, it’s systemd with the superfluous stuff cut out, a (relatively) coherent idea of what it wants to be, support for non-glibc platforms and an approach that aims to minimize complicated design.

uselessd is still in its early stages and it is not recommended for regular use or system integration, but nonetheless, below is what we have thus far.

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Thanks,

    John