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

[Jon Masters]

On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 15:16 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> said:
> > On Tue, 24.08.10 15:55, Matthew Miller (mattdm at mattdm.org) wrote:
> > > This is a very big change. chkconfig has worked for a long, long time. Its
> > > elegance and simplicity is one of the nice administrative features of Red
> > > Hat based distributes. People like it.
> > 
> > Yes, and they should continue to use it -- for sysv scripts.
> 
> I thought the last big discussion resulted in agreement that chkconfig
> and service should continue to work for all services.  Is that not the
> case?

It should be. Yea it's wonderful that Open Source lets stuff get
re-invented, but RHL, Fedora, RHEL, etc. has been synonymous with
chkconfig for about a billion years now and you can't just throw that
away without bothering a few people. You can throw it away, but you
shouldn't do that in F-14, even if it means compatibility code, like the
kind Microsoft probably hated writing as they killed off AUTOEXEC.BAT :)

Jon.