systemd vice SysV/LSB init systems - what next ?

[Fulko Hew]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 12:16 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > seth vidal (skvidal at fedoraproject.org) said:
> > > > > My suggestion is that you keep both init systems, SysV/LSB and
> systemd,
> > > > > as separate offerings out of many, and forever so.
> > > >
> > > > We'll take that under advisement.
> > >
> > > Ajax,
> > >  That remark is also unnecessary and just comes across as snarky. The
> > > only thing this will achieve is to keep other people from being willing
> > > to comment on issues in the future.
> >
> > So, the preference is to say nothing at all?
>
> I'd suggest something along the lines of 'sorry, but maintaining two
> officially-supported init systems side-by-side is an excessive burden on
> package maintainers and quality assurance, so we won't be doing it'.
> It's hard to go wrong by just politely saying what you mean.


But as someone who is maintaining his own package...

Won't I have to maintain two different init system support files
for both systemd based distros and "all the other Linux and Unix distros"
I also run on?
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