FC5 and new init system

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 11:39 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 13:08 -0500, Luke Macken wrote:
> > The discussions for Fedora's SysVinit replacement are currently off-list,
> > but not for much longer.  Any inclusion of a new init system in FC5 isn't
> > going to happen considering today is the test1 devel freeze, but Fedora
> > Extras will most likely serve to be a good testbed for any init replacements
> > that we plan on testing in the near future.
> 
> Unfortunately Extras may not be the best place.  One of the rules of
> Extras is that it doesn't replace something in Core.
> 
> Would the new init system require the SysV init stuff be
> disabled/removed?

well things in extras can be replacements for core but they cannot:
 - explicitly conflict or file-conflict
 - explicitly obsolete

but syslog-ng is in extras and it can serve as a replacement for syslogd

-sv