On 16.2.2014 12:59, Frans de Boer wrote: > Dear All, > > It looks like most Linux distributions are switching to systemd from > sysvinit. As Bruce is even one of the (co-?)authors of systemd, the > knowledge is already in the house. Why would (x)LFS stick to sysvinit > while the rest of the world is moving to systemd? >
I doubt he ever contributed any code to upstream systemd. If you by "systemd" mean the LFS systemd book, then no, he is one of the maintainers of LFS with sysvinit, on which LFS systemd is based. > Of course, simplicity might be one reason. After all sysvinit system is > much easier to understand then the somewhat more complex systemd system. > However, if everybody was thinking like this, there would be no progress > ever. > I also think that in order to keep (x)LFS attractive to new followers, > the project should go with the flow. > > Since my days of programming are long past, I can only offer my system > resources for (test)building development versions - much as what I do today. > > Regards, Frans. > See the following two threads: https://www.mail-archive.com/blfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org/msg16106.html and https://www.mail-archive.com/blfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org/msg16069.html including replies from Bruce and other people. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
