John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> writes: > But I don't see the problem, Debian has the choice. We're not going to > drop system V init anytime soon. Providing both systemd, upstart as well > as classical system V init leaves the up to the user and allows to > support non-Linux kernels.
There's a serious drawback to supporting multiple init systems if one of the goals is to stop writing init scripts. The only common denominator is init scripts; upstart and systemd configuration files look entirely different, and would have to be maintained separately if we support both without using the init script compatibility support. Thankfully, they're much simpler than init scripts, so supporting both upstart and systemd isn't too bad, but both of them plus init scripts reduces a lot (but not all) of the advantages of the new init systems. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/87obsqtqz9....@windlord.stanford.edu
