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Bug#727708: init system question before the technical committee



Hi all,

I'd just like to mentioned just a small(big? you decide) issue that I
haven't seen mentioned yet from anyone. Against systemd.

systemd has explicitly mentioned its Linux-only support. Sure, that
affects kFreeBSD/Hurd now. But changing an init system should be done
looking ahead *at least* 10 years (we've used the old one for 20+ and
in itself sysvinit exists for >30 years). Binding Debian to Linux *now*
will make it pretty certain that soon current non-Linux ports will
disappear, but also that potential *new* ports will never appear -or
will be extremely hard/unlikely to be integrated as well as these ones
have.

So I think this question should really be added as a con to systemd. To
be honest I'm indifferent, but if I had to, I'd choose either
OpenRC or upstart, and that would be one of the reasons for that. We
might not have a new port now, but I doubt anyone could foresee the
addition of kFreeBSD a year before. With a OS-agnostic init system, you
leave the option open, with systemd you don't. 

Anyway, enough ranting, I think I've made my point, I'm sure the
technical committee will make the proper choice. And -I also want to
say this- contrary to the claims, I see no bias involved, both Steve and
Colin are extremely well respected Debian Developers. I honestly trust
them they will do the proper *technically sound* choice.

Regards

Konstantinos

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