Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 08:40:38AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote:Vocal minority, looking after the interests of many more whom will be yet to learn of the facts at some stage.....Don't confuse facts and opinions. You seem to be labouring under the assumption that your opinions are "right" and everyone who disagrees, or is yet to get involved, is misinformed.but otherwise have no reason to think something could change so drastically with Debian stable release. ;-)It's not yet clear that the init system *will* change for upgrades.
Which, by the way, is a central issue: - will it or won't it change? Along with:- will users be given a choice between sysvinit and systemd during install, or will retaining current configurations become an increasing chore?
- will sysvinit continue to be supported or not? - will sysvinit compatibility be partial or complete?Perhaps there'd be less heat, if there were more light as too what commitments are really being made to backward compatibility. Somehow "it's all good," and "wait and see" are not sufficient answers. Some of us have been around the block enough times to see the cliff that lies ahead of us, and raise our voices. Pollyannaish responses are getting the responses they deserve.
Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra