On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:35:30AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 08:12:04AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > We need one and only one init system in Debian. (Those considering > > maintaining several init systems in parallel do not see how stupid, > > bloated and error-prone it would be to require all daemon maintainers to > > maintain more init scripts than they do now.) I’d like to see systemd as > > that one init system, but this challenges the future of kfreebsd. > > I see three options: > > 1. carry portability patches against systemd locally > 2. support multiple init systems > 3. drop kfreebsd (and HURD and others)
Multiple init systems is a large maintenance burden, so what about: 4. support one init system, one that can handle all Debian platforms (old kernels, user-compiled kernels, embedded kernels, hurd, kfreebsd, ...). Which is basically any of them other than systemd. -- 1KB // Yo momma uses IPv4! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110718100450.ga23...@angband.pl
