* Richard Brown
On 22 February 2013 20:21, Togan Muftuoglu
wrote: That it is a top feature that they have lost the freedom of choosing . Ok cool
I would argue that we should celebrate our distributions embracing of systemd as a positive In addition to all the usual positives bandied about systemd (faster boot times, on-demand service loading, etc), and the less obvious ones (eg. lid-close suspend to ram working from tty), focusing on a single init system is making our lives easier as distribution hackers, one stack to integrate with, one stack to polish, one stack to test - plus we still have all the backwards compatibility that systemd-sysvinit brings for our users who still choose to do things the old way.
It couldn't be further from the truth, it neither makes my life as a distribution hackers, to the contrary it causes needless work (as a case in point look at the ugly bandaids I had to add to xfce4-power-manager and lightdm) because of API churn, idiotic defaults, and systemd being a source of countless bugs and regression that had to be addressed, nor is it compatible to systemd-sysvinit. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org