sysvinit VS initng VS upstart VS launchd (Was: Future New Init for FC7?)

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:19:53AM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thursday 05 April 2007 11:05:37 Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > That, however seems very wrong to me and, in my opinion, very different
> > from the spirit of former fedora extras. Having exotic, in development,
> > niche software in fedora is very important to foster rapid development
> > and innovation. The developpers should be cautious as to avoid letting
> > softwares that are too broken pass from the devel repo to the release,
> > but I think that we shouldn't fear from shipping broken software if
> > there is an interest among users, they are not the defaults, and they
> > are represented as being in development.
> 
> This is fine, however what is in development automatically becomes the 
> release.  Perhaps we need better infrastructure around "skipping" packages 
> for the release, but that is also bad form for those that are testing rawhide 
> to see what will be in the release.

It is already possible, and I already did this for ivman as I thought
that te config system of ivman wasn't ready. I don't remember the
details but it was along editing a wiki page (and of course, hidden
behind somebody took action).

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Pat