On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 01:57:29PM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
>
> > I'm coming round to the view that we should be planning to support
> > multiple systems indefinitely.
>
> This has been my opinion all along. Various assertions that it's
> somehow just too hard really haven't swayed me. The tricky bit, I
> think, is to define just what "support" means in the context of
> non-default init systems.
There are at least three tricky areas:
1. init systems will have to cope with packages supplying init scripts
in several formats they support.
2. How to ensure that both systemd systems and non-systemd systems
work equally well?
If dependencies like "installing GNOME enforces systemd as init system"
would be legal, then after a few more such dependencies it would turn
out that systemd will be the only option available for virtually all
users - and that all the hassle of supporting multiple init systems
was a waste of effort.
3. Switching init systems after installation.
Assume I am currently using systemd.
What is supposed to happen when I do "apt-get install sysvinit-core"?
> Bdale
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