On 16/02/14 18:41, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 16/02/2014 17:46, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 2014-02-15 3:32 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> For Slackware, I have no idea. For Debian, no the only options were[1]: >>> >>> 1. sysvinit (status quo) >>> 2. systemd >>> 3. upstart >>> 4. openrc (experimental) >>> 5. One system on Linux, something else on non-linux >>> 6. multiple >>> >>> It should also be noted that no one in the TC voted OpenRC above >>> systemd AND upstart, and that while a couple voted systemd below >>> everything else, it can be argued that it was a tactical vote. >>> >>> Regards. >>> >>> [1]https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/ >> I would really, really, REALLY like to see a thorough, civil debate >> involving those far more knowledgeable than I on the pros and cons of >> systemd vs OpenRC... >> >> As it seems to me, the Debian OpenRC page says that the cons are not >> nearly as large as the systemd proponents would have us believe. >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/openrc > > I don't know much about systemd, I do know openrc. > > Thus far, the only real actual benefit I have seen of systemd that is a > real issue that really affects me is consolekit. It's not exactly the > best piece of software out there, comparable to HAL and how it was > replaced by udev. So systemd replaces and fixes consolekit by providing > logind.
ConsoleKit works just fine for the features it advertises to have, where as HAL never did, so I really don't know what you are referring to?