systemd vice SysV/LSB init systems - what next ?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Jul 21 15:51:59 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 13:53 -0400, Fulko Hew wrote:

>         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?

Well, yes. But when I say 'maintainer' I'm talking about Fedora project
package maintainers, not upstream developers.
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Adam Williamson
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