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Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)



On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:33:56 +0300
Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Ma, 14 oct 14, 10:40:34, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> > On 14/10/2014 9:50 AM, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debian 8
> > > (jessie) release of Debian. So you can continue to boot your
> > > production servers with sysvinit.
> > 
> > Okay, for now, that is until more packages decide that they can't do
> > without systemd.
> 
> Debian testing (Jessie) will freeze on 5. November. That's about
> three weeks from now. No serious package maintainer is going to
> introduce major changes now.

Andrei brings up an important point: We should enter phase two, where
we:

1) Boycott (and be vocal about it) Gnome

2) Pressure all other upstreams into a "no systemd dependencies"
   pledge, and to the best of our abilities, boycott (and be vocal about
   it) those who don't comply.


SteveT

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