[arch-general] Arch Linux and systemd

[Leon Feng]

2012/8/17 Geoff <capsthorne at yahoo.co.uk>:
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:22:56 -0500
> Myra Nelson <myra.nelson at hughes.net> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> I agree.  I have read all the current threads and the few words which struck me
> with greatest force were in a post from Marti Raudsepp, where he said that an
> advantage of systemd is "... less fragmentation between Linux distribution".  I
> have been full time on linux for nearly 13 years now, with the most recent five
> of those on Arch, and for me one of the principal attractions of the OS has
> always been fragmentation between distributions.  The recent changes to Arch
> (and I dare say other distros which I do not monitor), all seem to me to point
> in the direction of drab ecumenism - eventually "One distro to rule them
> all ...."  Sooner or later Arch will be distinguished only by its excellent
> rolling release model and the wonderful pacman.  Perhaps all this was
> inevitable.  I do not intend anything I say as a criticism of the devs - it is
> their distro and they are entitled to do what they choose with it. But it does
> make me sad.

Before Ubuntu start upstart, there is simply no choice but sysvinit.
No one complain it will end up to  "One distro to rule them all ....".

Leon

>
> Geoff