On 05/30/2013 03:10 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > I think it makes perfect sense for us to support systemd, openrc, and > upstart, at least for the time being; I doubt we'll continue supporting > all three options until the end of times, but we don't have to do that.
I very much like the idea to give a chance to all solutions before we decide which one we should keep. At least, I would like to have enough time to work with the GSoC student on OpenRC this summer, to see how it turns out. On 05/30/2013 04:46 PM, Riku Voipio wrote: > By switching early we can affect how a piece of software will evolve. > Is there something you would like to change in systemd? Now it still > probably possible - 2 years from now it has shipped in RHEL, and books > will have been written about it - and changing it will be much harder. Nobody prevents you to use and test it *now*. Systemd is in Debian, and many package provide support for it. If you were to send me some patches to support it (or upstart...), I'd happily apply the patch, and I'm sure that many other DDs would do the same. Though, I'm really not sure that if Debian decides to adopt Systemd now, rather than a bit later, it will influence its development, or change anything at all upstream. On 05/30/2013 04:46 PM, Riku Voipio wrote: > While we are busy maintaining multiple indirection layers to > "support user choice" I don't think this is what Wouter was talking about (eg, he never said we should leave this as a choice to the user). He's basically saying that *we* need time to test things, and see how they are, and make a choice later, with enough information in hands. I agree with that view (Wouter, tell me if I read your message wrongly, I all but want to put words in your mouth that you never said). Thomas -- 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/51a791fd.6090...@debian.org
