[HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

[Bill Nottingham]

Lennart Poettering (mzerqung at 0pointer.de) said: 
> > Would alternatives work here ?
> 
> Yes, the alternatives system would probably work. However, I think there
> are things where it is a good idea to use and where it isn't. And I
> think this case is one of the latter.  If we go down the switchable init
> via symlinks route then i'd prefer if we did this via
> installing/removing packages, not via the alternatives system.

alternatives isn't really appropriate - it's only changeable at runtime,
which means that you'd flip the alternative, and then telinit/shutdown/etc
would all start acting strangely w.r.t. the init you're currently running.

Bill