Игорь Пашев <pashev.i...@gmail.com> writes: > 2013/7/22 Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net>:
>> We would be effectively "locked in". > We are locked in sysvinit. Except we're not: both systemd and upstart support sysvinit scripts. Which is why we can do a gradual migration, or even switch back and forth between various alternatives. However, the native formats of both systemd and upstart (and, for that matter, OpenRC) are mutually incompatible, so migration from one to another is much more difficult than migration from sysvinit to any of the alternatives once a substantial number of init scripts are written in the new format and the old init scripts are dropped. That's the point. I can certainly see why people may not consider that a significant drawback, or may consider other advantages more than worth that tradeoff, and indeed we do make tradeoffs like that all the time. I'm not horribly worried about it personally. But that doesn't change the fact that it *is* a potential drawback. If we adopt a single alternative and move a substantial number of the current init scripts to the new format, we have locked ourselves into that alternative in a more substantial way than we currently have (where we're using a portable, if horrible, init format that is supported by all the alternatives). Come on, everyone. We can maintain a higher quality level of discussion than this. Please stop trying to find gotchas in everyone else's statements and instead take a little time to try to understand what they're actually saying. It's perfectly fine if you disagree or weigh tradeoffs differently, but when people say that they're concerned about an issue, they're probably neither lying nor idiots. They're just concerned about a different set of things than you are. -- 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/87d2qb4jzh....@windlord.stanford.edu
