On 02/13/2016 04:17 PM, João Miguel wrote:
I feel it pertinent to point out that a different rolling-release distrobution ( http://www.voidlinux.eu/ ) does not use systemd, openrc, or sysvinit. Void Linux uses runit exclusively, and thus patches projects like KDE4 and Gnome3 to work without systemd (I don't mention KDE5 since nobody has cared enough yet to put in the effort). Well, that's *amazing*... what does it mean for me, the user? To me, the user, it means I there is a possibility for an alternative init system without the devs having to do anything. It means there are people out there working on this and work towards alternatives does not need to start from scratch. You're on Linux: you ought not to be only a user, but also a contributor, thus "voting" with your actions. That's why you're on a mailing list, or at least why I am.
I don't think you've presented any plausible "use case" except "I want to be different" -- which is fine, btw, but shouldn't drive development decisions in the large. I mean, if you really want to you can still write your own /sbin/init, but I'm not seeing the point here. (If your goal is to *learn*, then yes $DEITY yes, do that, but for practical things... you need some more concrete and tangible goals to challenge the decision of systemd-only for Arch Linux.) Regards,