Lennart Poettering (mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > Would alternatives work here ? > > Yes, the alternatives system would probably work. However, I think there > are things where it is a good idea to use and where it isn't. And I > think this case is one of the latter. If we go down the switchable init > via symlinks route then i'd prefer if we did this via > installing/removing packages, not via the alternatives system. alternatives isn't really appropriate - it's only changeable at runtime, which means that you'd flip the alternative, and then telinit/shutdown/etc would all start acting strangely w.r.t. the init you're currently running. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel