[arch-general] Re: [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

The 27/08/12, Tom Gundersen wrote:

> As has been mentioned, the problems I foresee are (ordered from
> "currently a problem" to "a potential problem a long time from now":
> 
> 1) not enough people testing initscripts. This would be easy to help
> out with :-)
> 2) third-party software (such as gnome/polkit/...) getting hard
> dependencies on booting with systemd (essentially everything that now
> depends on consolekit, and maybe more). If you don't use the affected
> software this does not matter, if you do it is not really easy to work
> around.
> 3) devs at some point no longer wanting to maintain the various rc
> scripts. If people are committed enough I guess an "rc scripts"
> package could be put in the AUR to deal with this case (if ever it
> becomes a problem, which it might not).

Notice that debian is working on a tool to automagically convert unit
systemd files into initscripts.

  https://github.com/akhilvij/systemd-to-sysvinit-converter

Might be worth giving it a try and contribute to get easier support of
sysvinit in the long term.

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht