Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 11:04:08PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le samedi 20 juillet 2013 à 19:21 -0400, The Wanderer a écrit :
>
> > Making the switch away from the entrenched sysvinit is visibly very
> > difficult, at least as a social matter, even in the environment we have.
> > systemd et al., by virtue of the integration which is apparently one of
> > their selling points and the "proprietary"[0] interfaces they seem to
> > use, look like they would create an environment where a similar switch
> > to "whatever comes next" would be even harder - at least partly as a
> > technical matter, rather than a social one.
>
> Hey guys, I know this “Linux” thing is better than Minix, but it brings
> a lot of new features that we will be growing accustomed to. If we ever
> want to switch to Hurd one day, this is going to be much more
> complicated.
>
> This has to be one of the most twisted and bad faith arguments I ever
> heard in a situation of change resistance.
Not at all. If we're looking a bit further ahead than just the
immediate discussion, then this is an legitimate concern. We don't
want to paint ourselves into a corner we can't get out of. With
the features and interfaces systemd offers, asking the question of
how we can move to something else in the future is entirely
reasonable, since it's quite likely that the answer would be that
it would be difficult and painful once it became pervasive and
entrenched. We would be effectively "locked in".
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