[kwlug-disc] What is all this about systemd?

[Hubert Chathi]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 10:28:35 -0500, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> said:

> This is troubling ...  No one would mind systemd if it was replaceable
> by other init systems, and applications did not ask for it
> specifically, but "an init system".

> Now, even this is not possible in Debian ...

> Ian Jackson's Debian General Resolution to prevent init system
> coupling fails to pass

Again, to clarify, this does not mean that it is *not possible* for that
to happen, but that the Debian Developers have decided at this time not
to *force* support for alternate init systems.  It is likely that most
packages will still work with other init systems for quite a while.

BTW, for some statistics on the vote results, including a graph of how
each option fared against the others:
https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_initcoupling/
And the vote results:
https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_initcoupling/results.txt