[arch-general] Porque systemd? :-)

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 10/16/2012 05:28 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 16.10.2012 17:40, schrieb Gaetan Bisson:
>> [2012-10-16 11:16:04 -0400] David Rosenstrauch:
>>> I haven't been diligently following the mailing list, so perhaps I
>>> missed this.  But given the recent "systemd is now the default on
>>> new installations" announcement, I'm wondering:  what's the reasons
>>> for Arch making systemd the default going forward?
>>
>> This has been discussed countless times on arch-general and the BBS, not
>> always constructively (hence why the moderation), but there are were
>> some very informative posts, particularly from Tom Gundersen, such as:
>>
>> 	https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1149530#p1149530
>
> This post is nice, thanks for looking it up.
>
> I'd like to add that Arch's initscripts implementation has been getting
> more complex over time and still lacked many features and had many bugs.
>
> Systemd solves many problems in a elegant way and is being improved
> constantly. There's more manpower behind it than behind our initscripts,
> and our contributions to it are (most of the time) gladly accepted
> (Lennart is not nearly as evil as the internet makes him out to be).
>
> Finally, parts of the freedesktop.org infrastructure are starting to
> depend on logind, which in turn depends on systemd. In particular,
> polkit has dropped all support for consolekit, and gnome 3.6 will
> require logind as well. Moving to systemd is the easiest way to keep a
> good experience to our desktop and laptop users.

Very helpful info.  Thanks Thomas!

DR