-upstart subpackage vs tranditional initscripts

Richard Zidlicky rz at linux-m68k.org
Fri Jun 4 10:50:44 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 09:13:02PM +0800, Chen Lei wrote:
> Fedora have upstart as the /sbin/init daemon for a long time, but we
> still use the old 'SysVinit' scripts from /etc/rc.d/init.d and fedora
> packaging guideline have nothing about upstart.
> 
> Is it right for the maintainer to provide  two separate subpackages,
> one with the tranditional rc.d contents and one with an upstart
> scripts and make the -upstart subpackage have a higher priority over
> sysinit subpackage?

imho this is waste of resources and will only confuse most users. Decide for 
any init style that you are familiar with or that is suported by upstream.

Richard


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