[arch-dev-public] [announcement draft] systemd is now the default on new installations

[Allan McRae]

On 13/10/12 08:20, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 13.10.2012 00:12, schrieb Thomas Bächler:
>> Once initscripts, sysvinit and systemd move out of testing, new
>> installations will install systemd-sysvcompat by default and thus will
>> boot with systemd unless the user changes this. It's time for an
>> announcement:
>>
>> "The base group now contains the systemd-sysvcompat package. This means
>> that all new installations will boot with systemd by default.
>>
>> This change does not affect existing installations. For the time being,
>> the initscripts and sysvinit packages remain available from our
>> repositories."
> 
> Correction, sorry:
> 
> 
> "The base group now contains the systemd-sysvcompat package. This means
> that all new installations will boot with systemd by default.
> 
> As some packages still lack native systemd units, users can install
> initscripts and use the DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf to start services
> using the legacy rc.d scripts.
> 
> This change does not affect existing installations. For the time being,
> the initscripts and sysvinit packages remain available from our
> repositories."
> 


Fine with me...   I am also in favour of pulling this to [core] asap as
currently doing "testing-i686-pkg -c" gives:

error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: systemd-sysvcompat and sysvinit are in conflict

Allan