Re: Alternative proposal: support for alternative init systems is desirable but not mandatory

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>]

Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> Nikolaus Rath writes ("Re: Alternative proposal: support for alternative init systems is desirable but not mandatory"):
>> I just don't understand why you consider uselessd a "trick" that I came
>> up with (leaving alone the fact that David brought it up here, and that
>> yet another guy started the project).
>
> When I read someone mention uselessd before, I thought it was a
> hypothetical fork of systemd which was nearly identical to systemd.
>
> I think uselessd, if it is successful, deals squarely with many of the
> actual reasons why people don't like systemd: systemd's tendency to
> try to be everything.  That is the real coupling threat - not the lack
> of ability to continue to use init scripts.
>
> So I think in practice there aren't going to be many packages that
> would want to couple specifically to systemd _or_ uselessd, but where
> support for other init systems is hard to provide.

So just to be clear: A package requiring either uselessd or systemd
would be acceptable in Debian if your GR proposal passes?


Best,
-Nikolaus

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