[175643] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Oct 27 11:22:17 2014
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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 11:22:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gregory Boyce" <gregory.boyce@gmail.com>
> > 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.
3) A lot of people who do care and either cannot afford to or are
technically competent to fix it are screwed.
Cheers,
-- jra
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