[arch-general] SystemD poll

[Oon-Ee Ng]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Patrick Murphy <thegerdur at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Could you give me a brief explanation as to why init scripts are better?
>> I'm newish to Unix style operating systems
>
> As I said; they are tried-and-true since *decades*, all the problems
> have been ironed out by slow small changes, so if somebody has
> problems they are probably hitting very few people.
>
> Switching to systemd is not a small change, it's a revolutionary
> change, with the potential to break many people's boot (it has broken
> things in Fedora, and openSUSE, and it's happening in Arch Linux as
> well). So, a sensible person would wait until a sensible time to make
> the big switch (which is clearly not now).

"Bleeding edge"

Look it up.

Your assumption that the primary purpose of Arch is to be a long-term
stable distro is misguided. Debian is over that way. Its not even like
systemd is some new software that just appeared a month ago...