Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Ansgar Burchardt writes ("Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems"):
> Ian Jackson writes:
> > 2. Loose coupling of init systems
> >
> >   In general, software may not require a specific init system to be
> >   pid 1.  The exceptions to this are as follows:
> 
> Could you change the formulation here?
> 
> Several people seem to understand this as "must work with *all* init
> systems"; however as far as I understood from earlier discussions you
> only want to forbid depending on *one* specific init system, that is
> dependencies like init-A | init-B would still be allowed.

I think the language is already clear.  But I will change `a' to
`one', so we have
   `In general, software may not require one specific init system'

I don't want to further delay matters by making a bigger change which
I think would require consultation.

Ian.