Hi, Jerry Stuckle <stuckleje...@gmail.com> writes: > On 11/16/2014 10:29 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> Jerry Stuckle <stuckleje...@gmail.com> writes: >>> So why, instead of spending all this time on a new init system didn't >>> developers already familiar with sysvinit work on it? Systemd wasn't >>> one person alone. >> >> Presumably nobody was interested enough to do so. > > Maybe someone SHOULD have had enough interest.
Which doesn't change the fact that nobody was... I can write long lists of what SHOULD be done in my opinion, but that won't make any of it happen. >>>> 1. Reviving the existing init systems. Modernizing them, making them >>>> into true, interchangeable drop-in replacements of each other, which do >>>> the task assigned, and do it well. Each of them accomplishing at least >>>> the common subset of tasks an init system is supposed to provide. [...] >> It's not going to happen, because... >> ... nobody wants to work on it (at least not for free). > > So why don't YOU work on it? Oh, that's easy to answer. There is no motivation for me to do so: I don't care about support for sysvinit. I care even less thanks to the behavior of some people who write angry mails (no, really: why should I waste my free time to do something for them?). Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87zjbq7laq....@deep-thought.43-1.org
