On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 08:41:32PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: >... > With all that said, I think all of these considerations give me a slight > preference for systemd over upstart, though I believe that whatever the > committee decides on will be a great improvement over venerable SysV. >... > 3: Frankly, I don't want to support more than one set of init files; if > the other architectures are to be release architectures, they really > should get whatever the CTTE decides is the default init system ported > to them, and the maintainers of that init system in Debian should accept > patches to do so, even if it means that the default init system is less > functional on those architectures than it would otherwise be. [Even > without cgroups, it'll be superior to sysv, after all.]
Note that everyone (including systemd upstream [1]) agrees that it is impossible to port systemd to non-Linux kernels. And if anyone would (against all odds) actually succeed in doing such a port, then systemd upstream would not accept patches.[2] [3] The CTTE might decide "Systemd should be the only init system in Debian", but that would clearly imply that Debian will drop all non-Linux ports. cu Adrian [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-May/msg00447.html [2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-May/msg00456.html [3] I know both emails are from 2011, but this thread is the only one I recall to provide an (incomplete) list of potentially Linux-only features used by systemd. From all I've read Lennart's opinions haven't changed since then - may someone correct me if I'm wrong on that. -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
