You really do have to cater to get a foothold in the door any more. Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Laurent Bercot<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: 6/16/2015 4:24 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: comparison
On 16/06/2015 22:32, post-sysv wrote: > Soon systemd arrives with its promise of being a unified userspace > toolkit that systems developers can supposedly just plug in and > integrate without hassle to get X, Y and Z advantages. No more > writing initscripts, no more setting policy because systemd will do > as much as it can for you. A lazy package maintainer's dream, > ostensibly. > > Everyone hops on the bandwagon and there you are. Now we get to hear > about how systemd solves so many long-standing problems with the > distributions, but I can't shake the feeling that many of them were > self-inflicted through indifference and/or incompetence. I think you nailed it exactly. Inertia is the most potent force in the universe. Basically, to get supervision suites - or anything else - adopted by distributions, the only necessary thing is to do all their work for them. -- Laurent
