On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 8:16 AM Peter Robinson <pbrobinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 3:56 PM, David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]
<dkaspar(a)redhat.com> 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.
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