Thorsten Glaser <t...@mirbsd.de> writes: > Paul Tagliamonte <paultag <at> debian.org> writes:
>> Supporting two different init systems is something I don't think >> *anyone* wants to get into. Remember they use different files, so this > Erm, we already support sysv-rc, file-rc, systemd, upstart… > so my favourite GR outcome would just say that Debian fully > commits to continue doing that. I think you need to put quotes around "support" in that sentence. :) file-rc breaks with some regularity and is only used by a tiny number of people (so probably has more lurking problems). systemd and upstart are currently only "supported" in compatibility mode where they're effectively degrading to a fancy version of sysvinit for nearly everything they're doing. Fully supporting an init system means, among other things, writing or generating native configuration files for that init system so that we can take full (or at least fuller) advantage of its capabilities. We're currently not doing that for anything other than sysvinit. I still think it would be nice to try supporting both upstart and systemd in the short term and see which one works out better for Debian's needs, and which gets the most developer support, since I think we still have a lack of data. But, in the long run, I think Debian would be much better served by picking one and, as Matthias so aptly put it, making it awesome. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/87ppqt9xox....@windlord.stanford.edu