On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 06:26:34PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > Yes, and that's exactly what I find worrying about Lennart's attitude: > he presumes to impose his policy on you -- you must use Linux, you must > use a recent kernel with cgroups enabled, you're not supposed to use > shell scripts, etc.
Whilst I share your concerns about Poettering's attitude (and my heart sank only three lines into his reply that you forwarded to -devel), I think only supporting Linux is entirely his perogative: It's his project, his time and he can support what he wants. (Or it's Red Hat's time, and they can support whatever they want). Likewise, a recent kernel does not seem like a problem, and cgroups seems like a fairly core part of what systemd does. The shell script thing I have more of a problem with, although I take his point about the quality of init scripts at present[1]. I don't suppose it would be worth maintaining a patch-set in Debian to support other OSs: In a hypothetical future where systemd was the default init system for Debian, it's probably less work to support multiple init systems and let K*BSD/Hurd/*[2] pick another. [1] whilst implementing puppet, I filed #629654 and #629910, and I was just getting started ☹ [2] has anyone started a Debian/Plan 9 yet? ;) -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110718093007.GB22304@pris