stand-alone event engine

[Marcus Better]

Hi,

would it be possible to use upstart as an event and job handling engine
without running it as init? The question arose in a discussion in Debian
[1] about a network configuration manager that could possibly make use of
some functionality in upstart, if it could be done without forcing users to
switch init system.

Regards,

Marcus

[1]
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/netconf-devel/2007-May/000094.html