[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of TINI Is Not Init

[patrick . ohnewein]

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Patrick Ohnewein <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: TINI Is Not Init
System name: tini
This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

Description:
An infrastructure made up by shell scripts and a well defined directory 
structure, which act somewhat like the init scripts, but with the main aim to 
be able to easily switch between different environments. I need this for my 
notebook. The main idea is to configure the system starting up with as less 
services as really needed.
The other services get activated by the environment dependent scripts.
The switching between the environments should be possible even on a running 
system, not only during the boot up process.
The default init scripts of the hosting GNU/Linux system (or other OSs using 
analog strategies) shouldn\'t have to be modified, this has the advantage of 
easy system upgrades. On the other hand the init scripts can be used to set up 
the different environments as a sort of abstraction layer.
But the system hasn\'t to be limited to the init scripts. It has to provide the 
ability to change even application settings, like the mozilla (browser, 
messenger, ...) preferences, which in my case change massively across the 
different environments.


Other Software Required:
Being the system made up by shell scripts and by a directory structure 
definition, it should be very portable and shouldn\'t have big software 
requirements. Yes we will probably need the bash.

Other Comments:
The project is in a very alpha state and I hope you could give me the 
possibility to host it on savannah. Having than a publicly accessible CVS will 
surely help and push the project a lot!