[arch-general] Systemd! [WAS: arch-dev-public] Welcoming Dave Reisner to the dev staff

[Yaro Kasear]

On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 06:08:03 PM Thomas S Hatch wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Yaro Kasear <yaro at marupa.net> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 05:33:50 PM Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Please welcome Dave to our development team. He has been a frequent
> > > > contributor (and reviewer of patches!) to Pacman, has been a TU for a
> > > > little bit, and has taken initiative on a lot of
> > > > initscripts/mkinitcpio/systemd type stuff. I think I've given him all
> > > > the right permissions and such, and signed him up for the relevant
> > > > mailing lists.
> > > > 
> > > > -Dan
> > > 
> > > Systemd to come? =)
> > 
> > Having given systemd a try, I hope not. For some reason it wouldn't make
> > sure
> > my /home was mounted. I can't count on that.
> 
> systemd is awesome, but I think the core should stay as lean as possible.
> In the future systemd may replace the systemV stuff, but for the time
> being I think there is little motivation to add it by default, Keep It
> Simple Silly

I also agree with this, but I wanted to avoid saying it lest we get into 
another debate about systemd on here. But yes, systemd does seem to go against 
the grain of the UNIX Philosophy and the Arch Way.