Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports
On Friday, July 19, 2013 06:35:48 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 07/19/2013 06:12 PM, Mathieu Parent wrote:
> > As the recommended way to install systemd is using init= and not
> > installing systemd-sysv, maybe the popcon "vote" count is the correct
> > metric?
>
> Plus, systemd isn't pulled in by anything else which means when it's
> there it's there because it was actively installed. I don't think it
> magically lands onto a user's hard disk or someone installs it just
> in order to not use it actually.
>
> > systemd is "used regulardly" on about 1200 popcon submiters, upstart
> > on about 600 (this is even less than 100 from 2013-07-04, but what
> > happened!).
>
> Like several people pointed out before, the popcon entries for the
> Ubuntu upstart package pointed to Debian which at a particular time
> which resulted in wrong data being sent to popcon.
>
> The data that we have now is the actual data and it shows upstart
> isn't very popular.
sysvinit 148865 99.83%
Neither is systemd. The numbers for either are small enough to be
meaningless.
Scott K
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