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1. Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2017 17:46:19 UTC Maiyannah Bishop

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   @lnxw48a1 @clacke runit is love, runit is life
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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2017 23:52:58 UTC Hallå Kitteh
     @maiyannah With debian you used to be able to simply* do `apt-get install runit-init` and that replaced sysvinit with an init doing runit.
     
     That package is now gone, and simply taking the old one and installing it on an up-to-date debian doesn't work.
     
     I wonder if devuan has it.
     
     * A lie, obviously, but a lot of the times true. That and first getting dropbear and other things to run under runit (simply** apt-get install dropbear-run klogd-run) is sort of all I had to do to get my VPS to reduce its dead weight by 64-128 MB RAM.
     
     ** Slightly less of a lie
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2017 23:55:00 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     @lnxw48a1 @maiyannah The main benefit of #runit over other similar packages is that it is an `apt install runit` away. Apart from that, #s6 is a neater architecture, and a software package that is very much alive and doing interesting things. Also my love for #execline leaks into my appreciation for s6.