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Re: Jessie and Systemd integration



On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:22:21AM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote:
> Thanks very much, everyone.
> 
> I especially appreciate the dependency information with no bias. Just the
> facts is always appreciated on an emotional issue such as this.
> 
> The truth is that I can live with a stray library or a shim - but the rest
> leaves me concerned.
> 
> Setting aside all of the controversy, there seems to be one undeniable
> design fact.  Unless I am overlooking something relevant, Systemd is adding
> a single point of failure on a critical process chain. On a desktop, I don't
> care, but on a 24/7 server that is something I really can't afford.  Any
> server will eventually fail, but I don't feel comfortable risking cron
> timing, startup and logging failure all in one swoop by having systemd
> control everything.
> 
> I know you can disable portions of systemd, because I have, but the
> pervasive nature of the package dependencies makes it much harder to ignore.
> 
> From the sound of things, I'd very much like to give Debian 8 the benefit of
> the doubt.  I'll wait and see, if there are more posts and not dismiss it
> entirely.  Until more information comes in down the road, it is probably
> prudent for me to continue to look at a server migration plan that firmly
> does not include systemd.
> 
>

Hello TJ

I have been using Debian for almost 14 years continuosly, and i had to 
transfered 1 server to OpenBSD, because the comments in this list are uncertain; i 
can not wait for Jessi to do the transition. 

Bye.



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