"Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <enrico.weig...@gr13.net> writes: > On 27.11.2014 00:29, Noel Torres wrote: > >> manpower required to maintain a distribution with more than one init >> system widey installed, manpower to perform the required changes to >> support multiple init systems in Jessie, centered about the most >> important question: our users. > > Just curious: how large actually is the overhead for that ? > > For most packages, that IMHO should be just still writing/updating init > scripts parallel to systemd service descriptors. I haven't had the time > for a deeper analysis (systemd specifications aren't entirely precise > and complete ;-o), but maybe we could even generate them from an common > primary source, at least for a large portion of the cases.
All this has been discussed extensively in the last 3 years, and it has been attempted before that: https://wiki.debian.org/MetaInit. > But there are other cases like GNOME (and IIRC KDE), which now seem > to rely on systemd. I haven't done a deeper analysis [...] Other people have, and (again) it has been discussed extensively in the least year. Please review the archives. Best, -Nikolaus -- GPG encrypted emails preferred. Key id: 0xD113FCAC3C4E599F Fingerprint: ED31 791B 2C5C 1613 AF38 8B8A D113 FCAC 3C4E 599F »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87y4qm67h4....@vostro.rath.org