On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 06:29:52PM -0700, Shawn wrote: > actually, i think both should run, until (and if) all the packages using > binfmt-support are converted.
But they should not be converted. This is a perfectly reasonable general interface which we've already added to quite a few packages; it is thoroughly unDebianish to then go and add a special-purpose alternative for a single init system. Part of doing a good job of integrating systemd into Debian is to make it play well with existing Debian interfaces. If this means disabling systemd-binfmt, so be it; after all it does a subset of the job that binfmt-support does but is rather less sophisticated (only handles applying changes at boot time, not dealing with changes when packages are installed/removed; has no facilities for dealing with formats that require additional run-time checks to distinguish, such as Wine vs. Mono). I'm confident that any comparative evaluation of systemd-binfmt and binfmt-support on the merits would pick binfmt-support, even if the latter weren't already established. I'm fine with adding a service file for binfmt-support so that systemd systems don't need to go through the overhead of an init script to start it, although I would need somebody with systemd experience to write it. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
