Re: GR: Selecting the default init system for Debian

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 04:26:16PM -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 08:58:08AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> 
> > We have a default init system that has the Essential flag, and it is
> > impossible to switch to alternatives without going through a very strong
> > warning.
> 
> Factually incorrect.  The sysvinit package in unstable has been fixed to
> depend on sysvinit-core | upstart | systemd-sysv, allowing users to switch
> between init systems without removing an essential package.

Thanks for the clarification.  An earlier message in this thread gave me the
impression that it still had been the case (that I went through when installing
systemd on my machines), but indeed I was wrong.

In that case, I think that the project should decide via using this or that
system (“vote with the feet”).  For the packages where init scripts are a
limitation, just depend on systemd, upstart, openrc, or combinations of them,
and if and only if it is not possible to install Debian because pairs of core
packages depend on different single init systems, let's vote.

Cheers,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan