Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:50:00PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
>...
> Further, in my
> experience it was *way* more stable to either go for full systemd or
> always rely on the reduced functionality. The runtime detection of "is
> systemd running as PID 1" was IMO not very stable (and that wasn't just
> GNOME components, others as well). Though that was under Mageia and
> later on Gentoo provided various patches to improve it (but no idea how
> good the current state is or if we regressed anywhere).

I'd guess the main reason for this is that distributions usually support 
only one init system so the runtime detection rarely gets tested, and if 
Debian would support multiple init systems such issues would get sorted 
out quickly.

> Regards,
> Olav

cu
Adrian

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