On 19 October 2012 14:00, Stéphane Gaudreault <stephane@archlinux.org> wrote:
The problem is that it will eventually become an unmantainable mess, not because of initscripts itself (Tom, Dave et al did a great job to keep it in a good state), but because most devs are not going to provide much support on the rc scripts in their packages once the switch to systemd will be completed. Also new packages will probably not include any rc scripts in a short future.
Stéphane
I know that at some point of time it will become unmaintainable. But I believe it should be possible to support initscripts for next few months without any larger problems. As for the rc scripts – these are low maintenance, so keeping them is not a problem. I'm sure I will have to switch to systemd on all my systems eventually, but I don't give up that easily ;-)
Certainly Lukas intends to create and maintain an initscripts-arch-rc.d package similar to systemd-arch-units. He would surely not expect every packager to duplicate their work for two init systems, when most of us agree to deprecate one and move towards the other. Right Lukas?
Sure. If the package maintainer decides to drop rc srcipt from the package, I can keep it in such package. As the rc scripts doesn't need to be changed often I think this isn't a big problem, unless some of the applications starts requiring systemd for their services. Lukas