Re: If Not Systemd, then What?
Hi,
Jerry Stuckle <stucklejerry@gmail.com> writes:
> On 11/16/2014 10:29 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>> Jerry Stuckle <stucklejerry@gmail.com> writes:
>>> So why, instead of spending all this time on a new init system didn't
>>> developers already familiar with sysvinit work on it? Systemd wasn't
>>> one person alone.
>>
>> Presumably nobody was interested enough to do so.
>
> Maybe someone SHOULD have had enough interest.
Which doesn't change the fact that nobody was...
I can write long lists of what SHOULD be done in my opinion, but that
won't make any of it happen.
>>>> 1. Reviving the existing init systems. Modernizing them, making them
>>>> into true, interchangeable drop-in replacements of each other, which do
>>>> the task assigned, and do it well. Each of them accomplishing at least
>>>> the common subset of tasks an init system is supposed to provide.
[...]
>> It's not going to happen, because...
>> ... nobody wants to work on it (at least not for free).
>
> So why don't YOU work on it?
Oh, that's easy to answer. There is no motivation for me to do so: I
don't care about support for sysvinit. I care even less thanks to the
behavior of some people who write angry mails (no, really: why should
I waste my free time to do something for them?).
Ansgar
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