On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:57 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison <a.c.aitchi...@dpmms.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >> I write backports for EPEL and Repoforge from Fedora, and use a Fedora >> test >> environment to make sure my older packages will be forward compatible. The >> shift in init script management is going to be *fun*. > > > Most of my linux users use Ubuntu rather than Fedora at home. > > Several years ago I looked at switching from RH/SL to debian > and the hugh difference in init scripts was a large part > of the reason I stopped looking very hard. > > If those sort of games are going to happen I'll be starting > my choice between SL7 and something else without an SL bias.
Why would a change in init system or filesystem layout (especially the latter) necessitate a change of distribution?! How much are you editing init scripts (and why?) to care that much about the RH-Debian initscript difference?! If you are editing init scripts, you'll find upstart and systemd simpler to deal with!
