Could someone who has been following the giant fuss on -devel over init systems explain why there's such a sense of dire urgency? Is it provoked by systemd's effort to be adopted having at least found a home with gnome, made urgent by gnome's status as our default? Couldn't we just make XFCE the temporary default and stay with sysvinit until the technical dust has settled and we have a clearer view of the long-term merits of openrc, systemd, and upstart? I'm not close to DD status, so reluctant to ask on -devel. I don't fit any of the categories of that debate: 1) systemd advocates with few reservations about forcing their way, 2) near-adolescent emotional responses to anything that looks like forcing. Luckily there have been a few posts by 3) sensible and emotionally moderate folks; it's reassuring to see how many of them also hold office in Debian. But still, I'd like to understand. If you haven't been reading -devel, an overview can be found here http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=727708 and here https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem. -- JohnRChamplin@wowway.com ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/99421A63 2005-01-05 EE51 79E9 F244 D734 A012 1CEC 7813 9FE9 9942 1A63 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 99421A63
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