Re: GR - collecting proposals (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> wrote:
> - existing installations of older (pre-jessie) Debian may be
> upgraded to our new standard init system systemd, but only
> after the user has been suitably warned, e.g. via a debconf
> propmpt at priority "medium" (i.e. not shown to novices)
> (maintenance burden is on the package maintainers, plus a
> possible team of volunteers, for the init scripts; maintenance
> burden for the upgrade scenario is with the maintainers of the
> affected packages (sysvinit and systemd, AIUI))
> => we promote our new default, but permit our users to choose
> for themselves, if they feel they are technically skilled
> enough to make this choice and live with the limitations
> of a non-standard system; switching back and forth between
> the two supported systems is always possible
I appreciate this as it is about freedom of choice.
I think that it would be valuable for our users to keep the
non-default init system working on Jessie for those who do neither
intend nor need to switch to systemd.
Cheers.
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