On 08/10/2012 10:55 AM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 10, Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> wrote: > >> Now that they've done the bulk of the effort, do you really expect them >> to simply discard their work because you tell them to? > I really do not care about what the openrc developers will do, my > interest is in what Debian developers will do.
No, Your interest is only what you like. And your second interest is trying to force other people to share your opinion. >> So, please tell us about the corrosive harm that you think is going to >> result from this being allowed into the archive (in detail, with >> references), or let them get on with it. > There are two main issues with trying to support multiple init systems. > The first one is the time needed to do it. If the project decides that this is the way to go, you'll have to live with it. So far I can't see how using openrc wastes time at all so far. Wasting my time are all the systemd fanboys who want their please-make-that-compatible-with-systemd patches applied. > The second and more important > one is being limited by the features of the less capable implementation, > which would be a disgrace. So far I can see nothing that would make me feel limited by openrc. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- 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/503cba72.8040...@bzed.de