On Thu 26 Jul 2018 at 01:30:09 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 25/07/18 23:52, Darac Marjal wrote: > >> I'm not sure you understand how Debian works, then. Debian is a > >> political animal as much as it is technical. There was a > >> technical requirement for a better init system, so there was a > >> political process to decide what that would be (I say political > >> because, although there was a technical committee making the > >> decision, opinions were sought from the user base, so there was > >> the possibility of minds being swayed). When the decision to use > >> systemd was achieved, Debian went down the road of preferring > >> that as the init system. > > I understand perfectly well, your understanding is shared by many, but > so too is mine. There absolutely was NOT a need for a different and > flawed init system, ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Could we drop this now. Perverting the OP's query to involve a different topic (one which has been done to death in the past) gets no one anywhere. -- Brian.
