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Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]


From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 11:22:05 -0400 (EDT)

----- 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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