[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

[Calvin Morrison]

On 14 August 2012 11:58, Jelle van der Waa <jelle at vdwaa.nl> wrote:
> On 08/14/12 17:55, Calvin Morrison wrote:
>> On 14 August 2012 10:57, Stéphane Gaudreault <stephane at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>> Systemd has a overall better design than SysV, lots of useful administrative
>>> features and provide quicker boot up. Considering that it has been around in
>>> our repositories for some time and that it could be considered stable enough
>>> for production use, I would suggest to replace iniscript by systemd once the
>>> 'Missing systemd units' is over. Thus we will avoid duplicating our efforts
>>> on two init systems.
>>>
>>> Any objections to start the migration process ?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Stéphane
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I'd love to see the overall advantages and disadvantages of each of
>> those fleshed out on a page where I can read them - I know I can't
>> order anyone to do it, and my comment doesn't effect the outcome, but
>> I would really like to see a good explanation of the advantages in an
>> unbiased (aka not by LP) explanation  of why it is better for arch. Is
>> systemd suckless? is it easy to maintain? is it going to around for
>> several years? have we considered Upstart? what about OpenRC?
>>
>> before Arch jump ship, I would love to see some good details. I have
>> been trying to keep up Tom's posts on the general, so maybe I should
>> revisit them.
>>
>> Calvin
>>
> Tom has listed the advantages a couple of times in arch-general.
>
> --
> Jelle van der Waa
>

I remember seeing the comparisons against SysV  but not at all against
upstart or OpenRC