Get platform rather than ask for it

[bevacqua]

Maybe using platform.js? Asking for the platform seems wrong, since people aren't ever going to want to install something for a platform other than the one the script is getting executed in

[soyuka]

There is a native nodejs function for this: http://nodejs.org/api/os.html#os_os_platform. But, platform here can be "ubuntu, debian, centos, redhat, systemd, amazon". Systemd is not a platform just an alternative init system.

So, this will never be implemented.

[rlidwka]

It could be possible to detect init system, see for example this:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/18209/bash-detect-init-system

Could be hard, but not impossible.