* Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@suse.com> [2011-06-10 19:04]:
systemd is coming for next openSUSE (12.1) scheduled next fall.
As far as I'm aware there was only one recent discussion on this this list about it [1] which started with the premise that systemd will be the default for 12.1. I'd like to know who has decided when and for what reasons that systemd will be the default for 12.1? More specifically, what alternatives were considered and why and how is systemd serving the openSUSE project better in the long term? So far it has been treated as an option in Factory, however switching SysV initscripts over to the native systemd-format will make reversing this much harder if not impossible (and it's not that this hasn't happened before when upstart was supposed to be the next big thing). I admit that I disapprove of its approach to cram everything but the kitchen sink into an init daemon (including stuff completely unrelated to init such as (auto)mounting, handling LUKS volumes, controlling the system locale, time, and hostname, replacing ConsoleKit, or the planned per-user session-startup functionality) rather thank keeping it simple and doing one thing well (a design philosophy which has served Un*x systems rather well in terms of functionality, security, and sustainability of codebases). So far it's not even clear where this will end. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.suse.opensuse.devel/33091 -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org