[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a?singular package

Daniel Wallace daniel.wallace at gatech.edu
Mon Aug 27 02:35:21 EDT 2012


On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 08:24:21AM +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
> Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:
> 
> Am Sun, 26 Aug 2012 17:15:39 -0400
> schrieb Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com>:
> 
> > I apologize for this being somewhat after-the-fact. It was discussed
> > on IRC, but that of course doesn't necessarily cater to a wide enough
> > audience. Some of you have probably already noticed that systemd 189
> > now provides, conflicts, and replaces libsystemd and systemd-tools.
> > This is the next logical step since systemd will eventually be in
> > base once we have sufficient unit coverage.
> > 
> > As an added bonus, maybe this will encourage people who haven't
> > switched over yet to do so. ;)
> 
> "Nobody is forcing systemd on anybody."
> 
> Wasn't it this what was always said by the devs in all those long
> threads about systemd? And what are you doing now? Isn't this not
> forcing it on everybody?
> 
> "Nobody has the intention to build a wall."
> 
> Heiko
> 
> 
> Up till now you didn't have a choice, you had to use initscripts and you liked it. Why don't you take over maintenance of them so people can keep using them? 
Systemd and sysvinit aren't the only inits out there, there is runit,
upstart, openrc  all of which are available in the aur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Init

-- 
Daniel Wallace
Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology
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