On 11/12/2014 3:10 PM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed 12 Nov 2014 at 06:27:56 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> On 11/11/2014 2:16 PM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: >>> New users do not need to be be aware of all the background to the >>> choosing of a default init. No advertisement is needed. By definition, >>> they do not care. They want Debian. Please let them have it. >> >> Wow... what arrogance... > > Sorry to shock you. A cup of tea works wonders in such situations.
Not shocked, not at all - which is sad, really. >> That is tantamount to treating the debian userbase as lost little >> children who need to have all of the important decisions made for them. > Sounds like, doesn't it? Yep... thanks for admitting you're an arrogant... 'member'... lol > Let's be practical and see how how a screen in d-i could present an > init system choice to a user, particularly having a new user in mind. > > Here is my first suggestion: > > You are about to install an init system. Please choose > > 1. Systemd > 2. Sysvinit > 3. Upstart > 4. A. N. Other > > 1, 2, 3, 4? > > Feel free to criticise and improve on it. Sounds good to me, but in reality, since the default *and only* init system for the last very many years was Sysvinit (this extremely salient point seems to be completely and totally lost on the systemd proponents), I think only systemd and sysvinit need to be there... but allowing for additions once required bugs implementing them are resolved as fixed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5463c65d.8060...@libertytrek.org
