systemd acceptance, packaging guidelines (was Re: systemd and changes)

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:18:27AM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> > File /etc/inittab should keep working at the same level it is now.
>   Now it only selects default runlevel.

How about: 

- If /etc/inittab exists and contains an initdefault line, the default
  target will be set accordingly.
- any other non-comment, non-blank lines in /etc/inittab will be logged as
  warnings.

This leaves a migration path (ditch the file completely) while maintaining
some backwards compatibility. For a number of releases, the file can
continue to exist with a warning in the comments and the release notes, and
then eventually it can go away.

-- 
Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences