On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 20:19 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 29, Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> wrote: > > > I hope I'm not alone in feeling quite uneasy about the implications > > of the above. > We can all be "uneasy" about it until we are blue in the face, but since > Red Hat maintains most Linux core components and we do not, there is not > much we can do about it.
Maybe GNU/Linux is not the bright future any longer. > > While sysvinit is clearly inferior, it gives us (Debian) something the > > others do not: control over our own destiny, and the ability to > > modify every aspect of it and the init scripts to fit our needs. Both > > systemd and upstart are largely influenced by third parties. As a > I do not consider settling for obsolete software to be a useful > direction for Debian, nor is NIH a great argument in software design. Talking about NIH, is systemd not that if anything? -- 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/1335726410.1819.97.camel@x60