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Re:Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support by cbmuser on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @07:34AM (#46870240)
SysVInit is abusing runlevel scripts for starting daemons which has always been a hack to be able to resolve dependencies between daemons.

Learning Linux or Unix from scratch shouldn’t include using crude hacks.

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Re:Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support by its_magic on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @01:27PM (#46874998)
I'm with you on this. SysVinit is better than systemd, but far from perfect. I don't enjoy tediously maintaining all of those symlinks, and prefer the BSD approach myself.

One project on my distro is a new init that will be much, much simpler than SysV, more like BSD and without all the years of cruft.

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