> or did you not use Linux before 2010? I've been using Linux regularly since 2002. I've never regularly used a Linux that used sysvinit. In other words, over

> or did you not use Linux before 2010? I've been using Linux regularly since 2002. I've never regularly used a Linux that used sysvinit. In other words, over the past ~22 years (goddamn, where did the time go?) every Linux I've regularly used has had an init system that allows you to specify service dependencies to determine their start order. > ...Debian... Ah. That explains it. Debian's fine to build on top of but a bad distro to actually use. (Unless you really like using five-to-ten (and in some cases 25->35) year old software that's been superseded by much-improved versions.) You should also consider that packages named "sysvinit" sometimes aren't actually what people think of when they hear "sysvinit": <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sysvinit https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sysvinit>