On Wednesday 03 of April 2013 20:20EN, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
But if a package is not build for SLE 11, then why should it have an init file?
Because OpenSuSE is supposed to be a codebase for SLE12. And I don't see much sense in taking effort in carefully removing anything reminding System V init now and then making it work with System V init again several months later (yes, perhaps I'm naïve, but I still believe there will be System V init in SLE12). Moreover, people like Coolo still claim they will be fine with someone fixing System V init support in OpenSuSE with an add-on repository. But seeing that things needed for proper System V init support are countinuously taken away from distribution even when they do not harm systemd in any way makes it kind of hard to believe that they are sincere. As I plan to devote the Hackweek to such project, I would really appreciate if people didn't deliberately make the work harder at least in the cases when it actually doesn't help anyone. Few months ago, I expressed my fear that package maintainers are going to be pushed into removing init scripts from their packages. I have been assured this is not going to happen. Few months later, we are seriously discussing adding a warning to OBS if a package contains an init script and not letting anyone to add a new package with an init script. And everyone - or at least everyone who matters - seems to be OK with it. Well, it's hard not to see this as pushing. Michal Kubeček -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org