On Wed, 29 May 2013 21:10:41 +0200, Wouter Verhelst <wou...@debian.org> wrote: >At Debian, traditionally we support more than one choice (at least for a >while), until the community at large decides that option X is the best >one (and then we drop support for all the other options). The downside >of that is that it takes a lot longer for us to make a choice, but >eventually you usually get the better option. > >The only reason why we seem to be unable to do so this time is that some >people claim the sky will fall if we don't make a choice NOW!!1! > >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. >At any rate, we *need* to support multiple options for our non-Linux >ports, too, so this wouldn't be a lost effort.
The init system case is special because supporting another init script system will most probably mean that all packages delivering an init script ($ ls /etc/init.d/ | wc -l => 116 on my small notebook system) will have to adapt. This is a major transition, and while we offer multiple init systems as officially supported, additional work is needed by all developers. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- 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/e1uhzzb-0008j5...@swivel.zugschlus.de
