On Monday 06 of February 2012 07:12EN, Dennis Gallien wrote:
If systemd (or a close counterpart with essentially the same architecture) is in the process of being adopted as the new defacto boot system for the main Linux distributions such as Fedora, Mandriva, Ubuntu, etc. then it isn't a matter of if, it's a matter of when and how. Presumably even Debian, on purpose a later adopter, will eventually adopt systemd. So openSUSE will ultimately need to adopt systemd, or fall behind in a critical sub-system.
I think this is the basic problem. You take as obvious fact that traditional System V init simply has to go and the only questions are when, how and whether by systemd or something similar. I'm sorry but this isn't obvious to me at all. Don't take me wrong, I'm not saying System V init with the infrastructure of init scripts is the best possible solution and can't bereplaced _ever_. But such replacement should come from real need of improvement and address real problems. Systemd is pushed by wishes of people behind it and by creating of lists of artificial reasons invented by these people (systemd is better because it does what systemd came with and what noone needed before). There never was an actual discussion _whether_ the transition should take place. People behind systemd keep pretending that it is so obvious that there is no need for such discussion. I don't agree. Before we talk about "when" and "how", the "if at all" discussion definitely should take place. Michal Kubeček -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org