Guus Sliepen <g...@debian.org> writes: > I would hardly call that a suitable comparison. How hard can it be to > support both sysvinit and systemd?
For everything in Debian? Unless you're willing to write init scripts and cripple systemd by making it use init scripts, it's a huge pain, since you have to maintain two parallel init setups for every package requiring something to run at boot, one of which will probably never be tested by the maintainer. The same issue applies with upstart, of course. Both systems support old-style init scripts, but one of the huge motivations for switching init systems is to *stop using* old-style init scripts, since they support a tiny fraction of the capabilities of systemd or upstart and are massively annoying and tricky to maintain in a bug-free fashion. > It's just two little files to maintain instead of one. We also have/had > both .menu and .desktop files. This is widely considered a bug, and is frequently discussed on debian-devel as a bug. > If you think your comparison is suitable, then are you suggesting we do > something as difficult as moving from .deb format to .rpm? If RPM were technically superior to .deb, we should at least consider it, although the amount of work required is much larger than supporting another init system. (As it turns out, I think it's technically *inferior*, so I don't see much reason to consider it.) We should be striving to use the best technical solution to the available problem, not just continuing with whatever we did in the past. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/87wrfawcaf....@windlord.stanford.edu