Re: [Trisquel-users] A possible plan to fork Debian to avoid systemd

[lcerf]

It is. http://forkfedora.org gives an excellent example. The so-called  
"veteran admins" of http://debianfork.org have certainly spent all their  
working life hacking the kind of ugly script on the left (and their  
dependences spaghetti-style, with some hazardous 'sleep', etc.). They do not  
want to learn systemd's nice descriptive scripts (that systemd organize in a  
nice dependence tree). They do not care that systemd is faster, safer (using  
cgroups), uses a uniform format for log, etc. That is called "conservatism".  
It is plain stupid.

In contrast all members of the Debian technical committee but Ian Jackson  
(who was leading Debian 15 years ago... and has not done much since then)  
prefer systemd, Upstart and OpenRC to sysvinit. And (again setting Ian  
Jackson apart), each of them prefer systemd or Upstart (the order varies but  
systemd was preferred by twice more members, hence the final decision) to  
OpenRC, which is a sysvinit++. Here is a reference:  
http://mrpogson.com/2014/02/09/systemd-init-system-in-debian-jessie-democratic-decision-or-uncivil-war/