[175536] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory Boyce)
Thu Oct 23 11:05:37 2014
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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:37:45 -0400
From: Gregory Boyce <gregory.boyce@gmail.com>
To: Jeffrey Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Gregory Boyce <gregory.boyce@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> wrote:
>> I think that Debian's plan to allow multiple init systems
>> (irregardless of which one is default) is a bad plan. The non-default
>> ones won't get any love - at some point they'll just stop working (or
>> indeed, work at all).
>
> If they break then one of two things will happen:
>
> 1) Someone will fix it.
>
> 2) No one will fix it because no one cares. If no one cares, then it
> being broken doesn't matter.
>
> Killing off choice/alternatives just in case no one cares about them
> isn't especially helpful.
Resending since my subscription was apparently a bit off.
--
Greg
