[arch-general] SystemD poll

[Jayesh Badwaik]

Quoted from [1]:
"The hardest thing about voting is determining when to do it. In 
general, taking a vote should be very rare—a last resort for when all 
other options have failed. Don't think of voting as a great way to 
resolve debates. It isn't. It ends discussion, and thereby ends creative 
thinking about the problem. As long as discussion continues, there is 
the possibility that someone will come up with a new solution everyone 
likes."

Considering that the topic is so so trivial as to the default settings, 
it is stupid to have a vote on it. On the other side, ArchLinux 
installation is so much customizable that except for people who are just 
copy-pasting instructions from net without thinking, almost everyone 
else can use initscripts. 

And I believe, the first population will not bother anyway about their 
init system. Not because the former population is not skilled enough, 
anyone installing ArchLinux is skilled enough. But because, the fact 
that they are satisfied with default options show that they are not 
specifically worried about special needs. 

The fact that a rescue/installation CD should always boot makes it 
relevant that it should be widely supported. Systemd will be widely 
supported (for better or for worse), and the corresponding effort to 
install initscripts is very very small and developers time is valuable. 
I think the debate of default is useless. 

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Cheers and Regards
Jayesh Badwaik
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[1] http://producingoss.com/en/consensus-democracy.html#when-to-vote