Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 28. September 2014, 11:18:22 schrieb Steve Litt:
> > 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.
> Well with that I can argue to better never change *anything*.

Backwards compatibility is a wonderful thing - particularly when it 
comes to platforms.

Miles Fidelman


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