Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version
One more thing...
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 02:08:00PM +0000, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 10:12:43AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > But I do think that writing portable software isn't that hard, and that not
> > doing it is pure lazyness.
>
> It's not about difficulty, systemd isn't not-portable simply because the
> authors haven't got around to it yet; it fundamentally relies on a Linux-only
> technology.
This is wrong. An init implementation is not fundamentally Linux-only.
No matter how they chose to implement it, no matter what they've ended
up with, it is fundamentally possible to write an init implementation
that will work on more than just Linux.
It is perfectly possible to make an init implementation that uses
Linux-only technologies on Linux, but which falls back to a different
mode on non-Linux. The reasl reason why systemd is Linux-only is because
systemd upstream decided it would be easier to implement systemd that
way, and because they didn't care about non-Linux. I find that to be
lazyness; but that is, of course, their prerogative.
At any rate, I think the only solution to the dilemma here would seem to
be if someone were to port systemd to kFreeBSD. If neither the kFreeBSD
people nor the systemd people are willing to work on that, then we can
discuss and talk about this into eternity, but it will be highly
unlikely that we'll ever arrive at a solution.
kFreeBSD is already part of Debian. Systemd is not. The answer would
seem to be obvious.
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