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authorLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2026-01-24 00:04:40 +0000
committerLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2026-01-24 00:04:40 +0000
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Add link to s6-frontend to the overview
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description of the different parts of s6.
</p>
+<p>
+ This is about the <em>s6 package</em>, also called <em>s6-supervision</em>,
+not the <em>s6 ecosystem</em>. If you have just heard of a nebulous thing
+called s6 that may or may not be an alternative init system, know that the
+s6 package, while at the core of it all, is only a part of it; and it is
+likely that the part you want to interact with is
+<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-frontend/">s6-frontend</a> instead,
+which provides a simple user interface to the whole ecosystem.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ Still here? Okay, let's talk about the functionality that this package
+provides: the <em>s6 supervision suite</em>.
+</p>
+
<h2> Process supervision </h2>
<p>