New comment by heliocat on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/29115#issuecomment-787511147

Comment:
@st3r4g I hadn't gone with the alternatives route for a couple of reasons but it is definitely the cleaner approach. First, someone (it might have even been you) had mentioned in IRC that xbps-alternatives was buggy and so I didn't want to put something as critical as startup and shutdown on that. The second is that I don't know at what point alternatives become available in the life of a new system and I didn't want to break off the extra work to guarantee that /sbin/init was available on bootstrap and otherwise very minimal systems at every point in the lifecycle. I'd assumed that was the reason that runit-init was explicitly symlinked to init in the first place.

As for poweroff that's a very good point. I'm thinking that a hybrid approach might make the most sense: alternatives for halt, poweroff, reboot, and shutdown, and an explicit link for init. That way system boot will continue to work using the plumbing as it exists but everything else takes the more flexible route. That would still require there to be a subpackage for init itself which is kind of lame but it would make everything else pretty straight forward. Thoughts?