On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 08:12:04AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Developing for Linux-only is fine, but Lennart has explicitly said that > he wouldn’t remotely consider accepting portability patches, which goes > further than any other piece of free software I had to deal with.
Oh. That's worse than I thought. > We need one and only one init system in Debian. (Those considering > maintaining several init systems in parallel do not see how stupid, > bloated and error-prone it would be to require all daemon maintainers to > maintain more init scripts than they do now.) I’d like to see systemd as > that one init system, but this challenges the future of kfreebsd. I've just written pretty much the opposite in my last message to the thread, however: it's my opinion that supporting kfreebsd et al should be done with the minimum impact on the Linux Debian distribution. So, pre-supposing systemd, I see three options: 1. carry portability patches against systemd locally 2. support multiple init systems 3. drop kfreebsd (and HURD and others) I thought 2. would be more likely than 1. (and fairer on Tolleg!) since I expect there will be people with no interest in kfreebsd/HURD that nevertheless would like init system choice; however I'm not one of those people, and I'm increasingly of the opinion that choice for choices sake harms us. -- 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/20110718093520.GC22304@pris
