heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

Michał Piotrowski mkkp4x4 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 15 08:14:30 UTC 2010


2010/9/15 Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com>:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:57:02AM +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
>> 2010/9/15 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com>:
>> > I expect systemd development to move to rawhide now. Not sure how much
>> > sense it makes to keep developing systemd in f14
>>
>> It seems to me that many F14 users would like try/test it.
>>
>> >, in particular since
>> > the thing that was perceived as lacking was mostly system integration.
>>
>> ???
>>
>> I do not understand this argument. Upstart is still lacking of system
>> integration.
>
> There is one big difference though.  Upstart does work and for a
> "naive" user this detail that /sbin/upstart handles sysvinit job is
> not really visible.  In the case of systemd this works "mostly".
> Definitely much better now than when it showed up for the first time
> but if you will scratch little deeper then various niggling
> "imperfections" show up all over.  Maybe all this could be fixed in
> time for a release or maybe not.  I think that waiting for F15 until
> the whole environment matures enough was a responsible decision.

Ehm, ok I understand this. But this is lack of
stability/perfectness/etc not lack of integration.

>
> BTW - I run rawhide and do not plan to switch that back to upstart.
>
>   Michal

Regards,
Michal


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