Hi,

Glen Gray wrote:
>> For average meego package, this does not change much. Upstart supports
>> sysvinit style init scripts so they will continue to work as usual.
> 
> This raises then the obvious question of Why ? 
> What tangible benefits does moving to Upstart offer.

I can answer this...

Upstart supports old init style scripts, but that's not all it supports.
You can do things like have inter-service dependencies, so that if
service A needs service B to be available first, they you can tell it to
wait for service B in its upstart config file.

Upstart can watch config files and reload them, if it's told to, without
you having to do so explicitly (which is pretty cool).

Upstart supports on-demand starting of services (in a DBus like way).

systemd offers essentially the same benefits.

Cheers,
Dave.

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