Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:02:35 +0200
Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> wrote:
> Am Freitag, 26. September 2014, 14:51:01 schrieb Miles Fidelman:
> > John Hasler wrote:
> > > Miles Fidelman writes:
> > >> the technical committee selects takes a vote that essentially
> > >> imposes systemd on all of the upstream developers and packagers
> > >
> > > Where the hell do you get that from?
> >
> > Isn't that effectively what happened?
> >
> > If I'm an upstream developer, and I want my stuff to run on
> > Debian, I now have to include systemd init scripts (or the
> > packagers do).
> >
> > Sure, it's "voluntary" - but not really.
>
> Oh, the same way I could say:
>
> I am forced to write init scripts for a package. As I recently just
> did:
The difference being that the Linux *you* originally moved *to*
required init scripts. Nobody changed everything on you.
SteveT
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