I think not need use upstart at 1.2. Pointlessly to rewrite scripts under the upstart and then in the next version again put a lot of effort to adapt to systemd. Especially to 1.3 will already have done much in the Fedora community.
PS: initV support parallel start and depends (see in debian) Leonid S. Batizhevsky On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 19:16, Arjan van de Ven <ar...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > On 1/7/2011 6:46 AM, Dave Neary wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Glen Gray wrote: >>>> >>>> For average meego package, this does not change much. Upstart supports >>>> sysvinit style init scripts so they will continue to work as usual. >>> >>> This raises then the obvious question of Why ? >>> What tangible benefits does moving to Upstart offer. >> >> I can answer this... >> >> Upstart supports old init style scripts, but that's not all it supports. >> You can do things like have inter-service dependencies, so that if >> service A needs service B to be available first, they you can tell it to >> wait for service B in its upstart config file. >> >> Upstart can watch config files and reload them, if it's told to, without >> you having to do so explicitly (which is pretty cool). >> >> Upstart supports on-demand starting of services (in a DBus like way). >> >> systemd offers essentially the same benefits. > > actually systemd is a lot nicer in this regard, and they have some very > interesting features and tricks > to make that happen. Unfortunately, systemd on our schedule (hard feature > freeze in less than 2 weeks) > was just not an option, it's not quite ready for that..... > > _______________________________________________ > MeeGo-dev mailing list > MeeGo-dev@meego.com > http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev > _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
