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["Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

On 18:44:07 2007-04-09 Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org> wrote:
> 
> Your wiki page still basically reads as though the notion is to
> research a bunch of inits and move us from simpleinit to one other one,
> and that's really not the goal IMO.

Well at the time it was discussed to switch to one other init first before
doing anything else so that was the way the page was written.

> Even the short-term potential goal
> of replacing simpleinit with something supported isn't represented
> there; that shouldn't be a long process if it happens and it shouldn't
> include every init system someone can think of because the focus should
> be on something that can be a quickfix without needing to change our
> existing scripts.
> 
> The best progressive thing someone can do for this right now is just to
> take a few days and implement $init_of_their_choice to run a system and
> get that into spells.

I've modified the page(hopefully it's good enough now to reflect this
information). But as it is a wiki page feel free to correct things you
don't think should be there or should be done differently.