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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 21.07.10 23:00, Matthew Miller (mattdm at mattdm.org) wrote:

> My laptop already boots fast enough already, although I guess if it can be
> improved even further with minimal disruption, why not. I don't see it as
> worth a lot of pain, though -- not because I don't use my laptop a lot, but
> because suspend/resume makes boot time irrelevant in the general case.

OK, so we have one feature here that doesn't matter for you.

> I *do* like the prospect of easy management of resources (CPU policy, OOM, io
> class) for services. The templating mechanism might be useful here.
> 
> And I'm hoping that maybe, finally, dependencies in init will mean that NFS
> mounts in fstab don't utterly fail when NetworkManager (another source of
> sysadmin displeasure, but let's not go there now) is used.
> 
> And I should add that I appreciate that the proposed config file format is
> key=value rather than some XML monstrosity.

And here are three features that you like and matter to you.

Now, after discussing this over 2years with many folks and reading up on
launchd and SMF and the opinions on the net, we then distilled of the
requests a set of good features we wanted to implement. Some of those
matter to you. Others don't. But to other people other features matter
and the ones you like don't. And even other people have even other
priorities. 

Now, putting this all together, just because there's a lot of stuff in
there you don't need it is not without point in general. Not everybody
has the same needs, and many requirements other people have you don't
have their full validity.

We don't try to make everybody happy with systemd. We will neither offer
every feature people might have requested, nor are we going to drop
features just because others don't see the need. Please accept that. It
doesn't make the project pointless.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.