sysvinit-core and initscripts incompatible with EasyOS

Caramel has reported the problem:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=162677#p162677

There are issues that arise from EasyOSs use of busybox, such as the init login, also another example the busybox crontab.

One method used in woofQ2 to prevent APT from installing packages that conflict with busybox and anything else that is different in Easy, is by using the equivs mechanism to create dummy packages, that do nothing. I have now added 'sysvinit-core' and 'initscripts' dummy packages.

There is potentially a problem still, as although those actual packages won't get installed, so no clash with busybox, there may be something in them, a specific utility or script, that isn't in Easy, but a package may want it.

In such a case, it may be simpler to look at installing the package some other way than using PKGget, such as an appimage or flatpak. Or, last resort, compile the package.   

Tags: easy