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
Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
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