On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 05:48:20 PM Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 04:55:44PM -0400, John wrote:
> Could someone who has been following the giant fuss on -devel over
> init systems explain why there's such a sense of dire urgency?
I think it's largely driven by frustration over how bipartisan the
discussion is and how long it has been going on (it has been
repeating
over and over for years), combined with a desire on the part of most
folks for Debian to move to *some* modern init system (the debate
being, which).
I imagine part of the debate includes the fact that systemd
integrates all
kinds of systems and subsystems in an attempt to become the do-all
and end-all
of services control. This effort moves far away from the old UNIX
concept of
'do one thing and do it well'. Were I to be unkind, I would opine
that systemd
is an attempt to make Linux more like Windows, where everything has
tentacles
everywhere.