systemd and changes

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 24.08.10 20:14, Till Maas (opensource at till.name) wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:00:01AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> > Well, ironically enough, Lennart's last big revolution illustrates the
> > problem with that. PulseAudio - previously PolypAudio, remember - was
> > 'opt-in' for several releases; it was packaged in Fedora and many other
> > major distributions, you could enable it just by installing it. It was
> > used by approximately no-one. People just don't opt in to big bits of
> 
> Afaik there are only limited benefits using PulseAudio compared to the
> previous situation. I just checked the German Wikipedia and the only
> rarely practically used enhancement by me is to easily switch between by
> two soundcards. But it also meant that a long time PulseAudio defaulted
> to the wrong soundcard every now and then.
> 
> > infrastructural change unless they have some very specific reason to do
> > so; booting the system more or less works for most people, so why would
> > they 'opt in' to a new init daemon?
> 
> But systemd seems to provide a lot of new features, e.g. a much nice
> syntax for the unit files compared to the ugly and non race condition
> free sysv init scripts and the bootup should be faster.

Well, for different people different things appear more important. From
that you should not imply that one thing is useless and the other
isn't. 

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.