Re: Init system deba{te|cle}
On 03.Nov.2013, at 10:33, Marko Randjelovic wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:55:44 -0400
> John <JohnRChamplin@wowway.com> 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 am sure this is not urgent, Gnome should not be default DE and even
> they could easily just make two (or more) DE options in installer.
> XFCE4 is on Wheezy DVD-1.
>
> Decisions like changing such an essential part of OS should not be made
> in rush.
This is wise. Put in other words: If you do not know what to do, do nothing.
> I do not see enough reasons for Gnome to depend on systemd, other than
> forcing us to switch to systemd for interests of big corporations.
Who knows?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Poettering (the one that wrote systemd) tells us
"Poettering is a long term contributor of the GNOME project, a GNOME Foundation member and..."
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Markus
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