[arch-general] Think twice before moving to systemd

[Stephen E. Baker]

On 15/08/2012 8:05 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Leon Feng <rainofchaos at gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
>> Arch is always give user's their options they want.
>>
>> You can use initscript, even if systemd is the default just like I can
>> use systemd now when initscript is the default. Switch from one to
>> another is very easy.  So use systemd as default does not means you
>> can not use initscript.
> This is not what I've been reading on the mailing list. People want to
> get rid of initscripts, as maintaining both would be a "burden", and
> certain projects behave differently with or without systemd (wedge
> strategy).
>
True, the devs will eventually not want to be burdened with it, but that 
doesn't
mean you couldn't support a version in your own repository or the AUR no
matter what anyone else does.

Yes, it is a lot of work.

Stephen E. Baker