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Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...



On Mon, 03 Apr 2017, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> The documentation for ALL the init systems has already been written
> and is fairly comprehensive. Maintenance on the various inits, except
> systemd, of course -- its implementation is still very new -- seems
> minimal. So, all that can't be the reason.

The issue isn't with the maintenance of init itself, but with
maintaining everything that interacts with init and any divergences from
upstream which are necessary to keep maintaining compatibility with a
non-systemd init.

Bit rot happens.

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them in comfort.
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