Re: systemd

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2012-07-25 23:38:57 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 06:16:11PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Ma, 24 iul 12, 12:38:12, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > I'm confused, will Debian or will Debian not switch to systemd?
> > 
> > Definitely not for wheezy, it's already frozen. As I understand from 
> > lurking on -devel, the plan is to demote sysvinit from Essential as soon 
> > as the wheezy+1 development cycle starts, to allow admins to experiment 
> > with systemd or upstart.
> 
> Just to clarify, the removal of the Essential status from sysvinit
> changes nothing--it's pointless and doesn't affect experimentation
> with systemd or upstart, both of which can be used as a sysvinit
> replacement right now.  It will just make some of the dependencies
> slightly cleaner, but is only a tiny detail.

Not for upstart, which conflicts with sysvinit. The user doesn't
know whether he has some package installed that would depend on
sysvinit and break his system if sysvinit is removed.

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