Hi, Am 20.01.2011 14:18, schrieb Tom Gundersen:>
Anything in particular you have in mind? We are working towards complete backwards compatibility with initscripts, and we are more or less there (modulo unknown bugs).
First of all I was talking about systemd as the default init system within Arch. I don't think this will happen at all. You see the reaction of the people here, most of them are quite too happy with sysvinit ;).
Any suggestions about what might make the installation easier? At the moment you have to install some packages from AUR and add a line to your GRUB file.
I appreciate your work (and anyone who has helped you out a bit), but to be honest its not the way I would think of an ideal solution :(. Right now you have to install a few packages from AUR and run it in parallel with sysvinit. I don't even know if there is a way to remove sysvinit, but I would guess this wouldn't be easy. Furthermore units are provided by a single package. I don't think thats a good way, as I get a whole bunch of units I actually don't need. All in all, its relatively easy to install systemd, because of the work you and others have done, but it doesn't follow the KISS principle at all. I guess, to make it really affordable it must be declared as official, so the packages itself contain the units, replacing the sysvinit. Best regards, Karol Babioch