On 19 October 2012 14:00, Stéphane Gaudreault <[email protected]> wrote: > > The problem is that it will eventually become an unmantainable mess, not > because of initscripts itself (Tom, Dave et al did a great job to keep it in > a good state), but because most devs are not going to provide much support > on the rc scripts in their packages once the switch to systemd will be > completed. Also new packages will probably not include any rc scripts in a > short future. > > Stéphane
I know that at some point of time it will become unmaintainable. But I believe it should be possible to support initscripts for next few months without any larger problems. As for the rc scripts – these are low maintenance, so keeping them is not a problem. I'm sure I will have to switch to systemd on all my systems eventually, but I don't give up that easily ;-) > Certainly Lukas intends to create and maintain an initscripts-arch-rc.d > package similar to systemd-arch-units. He would surely not expect every > packager to duplicate their work for two init systems, when most of us > agree to deprecate one and move towards the other. Right Lukas? Sure. If the package maintainer decides to drop rc srcipt from the package, I can keep it in such package. As the rc scripts doesn't need to be changed often I think this isn't a big problem, unless some of the applications starts requiring systemd for their services. Lukas
