On Mon, 3 Apr 2017 12:53:30 -0500 Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Apr 2017, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > The documentation for ALL the init systems has already been written > > and is fairly comprehensive. Maintenance on the various inits, > > except systemd, of course -- its implementation is still very new > > -- seems minimal. So, all that can't be the reason. > > The issue isn't with the maintenance of init itself, but with > maintaining everything that interacts with init and any divergences > from upstream which are necessary to keep maintaining compatibility > with a non-systemd init. > > Bit rot happens. The price you pay to satisfy the needs of loyal users. And a small one at that. Look what happened to Microsoft with the Windows 8.0/1 debacle. B
