On 18/10/2014 12:46 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
On 17.10.14 20:02, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
On Fri, 2014-10-10 23:24:53 +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote:
You have convinced me, and I believe I may well have installed my last Debian distro.
Maybe not!
Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/10/msg00001.html
Ah, the chains may yet be thrown off, then. That is great news. Restoration of choice would force systemd to compete on its merits. That can hardly be a bad thing - for it or the users.
Even if the GR gets through (this one....), the maintainers will have a "policy" to support other init systems -- it won't change the default init system that Jessie uses, nor will it mandate a change in the future. In some respects, this looks like a "claytons" GR; I think we need one that specifically says that the default init system will NOT be systemd as well -- that can be done even with gnome desktop returning as gnome can now run without systemd as a depend. So, not sure this is the best GR to come about, time will tell. At least it would help enshrine Debian Policy to continue support of alternate init systems. A.