[Fed-Devel] Re: SYSTEMD: Give us a option for upstart

[Steve Clark]

On 06/14/2011 07:08 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 06/14/2011 04:36 PM, Rudolf Kastl wrote:
>> I never proposed having alternatives for each of the core systems
>> either... There is already a viable alternative that works. inittab
>> contains atm exactly one line... the one with the default runlevel...
>> and /etc/fstab can be parsed differently if there are changes.
> systemd doesn't use /etc/inittab and upstart uses it.  So you have to
> account for the differences and test them.
>
>> Also i do not understand the Argument with the unit files... they are
>> systemd related. upstart isnt affected. Since upstart isnt installed
>> by default anyways it also doesent matter for "critical path". Got a
>> hard time to follow your argumentation there. SystemV init scripts are
>> already present and work quite well aswell.
> You miss the point.  Packages are already dropping init scripts and
> converting to using systemd unit files.  To maintain upstart
> compatibility you have to continue to maintain sys init scripts in
> addition to systemd unit files and again make sure they don't diverge
> and they both work equivalently.   Who is volunteering for that?
>
> Rahul
You already are maintaining multiple UI systems which seem to me to be much more complex than
two different "init" systems.


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