On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 8:16 AM Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 3:56 PM, David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] > <dkaspar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello people, > > > > I'm working on making Fedora being able to function completely without the > > 'initscripts' package (hopefully) some day in the future. I have done some > > cleanup in initscripts recently, and I would like to ask maintainers of > > packages listed below to check if their package(s) still really need the > > initscripts package to function properly (for any reason). > > > > It seems that for many packages the requirement of initscripts is just a > > leftover from past. If the package does not need the initscripts any longer, > > please remove the requirement in Rawhide (F29) and forward. (Do not backport > > this change into F28 or F27, it would break things.) > > > > NOTE: In case you are depending on initscripts because of networking scripts > > (ifup/ifdown, etc.), then you will need to update your specfile to depend > > directly on new package 'network-scripts' (instead of 'initscripts'). > > It would be useful to do a similar change for chkconfig and split out > the alternatives binaries into a separate package as a bunch of the > chkconfig stuff is directly related to sys V and the initscripts > package. > Since chkconfig can be used to manipulate systemd units indirectly, I don't think that's quite so necessary. However, it might make sense for the service(8) command implementation to be subpackaged in initscripts so that it can be installed without the legacy stuff. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/KQI7UINVC7OTYCDT3DSCRHUXVUGBMU3F/
