* Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> [2019-12-02 22:55]: > The key here, I guess, is that each situation needs to be evaluated > independently
Guillem, there's a lot of stuff I agree with you on, both in this email and the proposal you wrote. What I find strange though is that you acknowledge in this email that each situation needs to be evaluated independently, but your GR proposal is a blank statement about portability that completely ignores that the GR is trying to evaluate only the init system question. I support "portability and multiple implementations" where this makes sense. People have tried to support multiple init systems but it hasn't worked out for whatever reason (and you can argue that there was never a real attempt because various people blocked it, etc, but the point is that the old approach hasn't worked out and everyone is tired with the situation). That's why we've reached the point of this GR to find a way forward. With your libaio, GNOME and llvm examples you acknowledge that there needs to be a cost and benefit analysis for each case, but then when we have a GR to find out specifically how people see that analysis for *init systems* you propose an amendment that basically says "portability at (almost) any cost". -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/