What do consumers wishing to use systemd in F14 need to do?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Sep 16 15:33:07 UTC 2010


"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" (johannbg at gmail.com) said: 
> Well Lennart is one and half and what Bill has been saying from the get 
> go is the other, that is to allow people to pick their own set of 
> breakage in init system is really a bad idea. Trying to patch and 
> supporting and updating both is another recipe for disaster, probably 
> doable but bad food never the less. .
> 
> And I personally agree with Bill's view on this.

I could see having what F-14 currently has (*) left in F-14, with a caveat
that it's there solely as a preview, and any issues are not guaranteed
to be fixed in F-14 itself. However, that would be promoting not the best
service to our users.

Bill


(*) with a newer systemd-sysvinit so you don't get constantly 'upgraded' to
upstart


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