On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Bernhard M. Wiedemann bernhardout@lsmod.de wrote:
As I understood it, native unit files are not needed for the goal of fully switching to systemd and dropping sysvinit - so this step (and all other steps about /etc/init.d/ replacement) should be optional.
no, there should not be optional, as does solve the problem of supporting two different ways to do things.
openSUSE is not python (which is claimed to have exactly one way to do things) - but more like perl with TIMTOWTDI(=There Is More Than One Way To Do It) philosophy. We have 4 Desktop-Environments, countless windows-managers, email programs and web-browsers... So I wonder why having two init systems (that are even mostly compatible) for some years would be a problem. There will be extra packages with /etc/init.d/ scripts for a long time, so we can not just abandon the sysv-compat anyway - openSUSE is more than the core we ship and we need to consider this in our decisions.
There are teams who either volunteer or are payed to support different parts of openSUSE, such as the different desktop environments. If a group of systemv enthusiasts wants to step up and provide long-term support for systemv, as is currently being done e.g. with KDE3, I suspect this would be possible. The problem is trying to make the current team do two jobs when they already have enough trouble just doing one.
What you are suggesting is more like demanding the KDE team support KDE 4 and KDE 3 long-term. That is not feasible in practice, since it would require they essentially support two entirely independent desktop environments. That is why support for KDE 3 has fallen to a different team that actually still has an interest in it. So the people who have an interest in systemv should step up and offer to support it long-term. That doesn't actually affect this proposal, though, since the main team will still need to transition to systemd just like the main KDE team transitioned to KDE 4 and the main Gnome team transitioned to Gnome 3.
-Todd