Clearly, the initsystem is by far, much more relevant than nano, vi, jre, mail, x-www-browser, etc... It is a big deal.
Item 2 is important. And not to only make popularity contest more fair... It should not only inform about alternate init systems, but also, give people the opportunity to chose between "sysvinit | systemd". Just my two bitcents... :-) - Thiago On 18 October 2014 19:56, Vincent Bernat <ber...@debian.org> wrote: > ❦ 18 octobre 2014 13:32 +0200, Svante Signell <svante.sign...@gmail.com > > : > > > In summary, the CTTE is asked to make a decision on debconf warnings on: > > 1) Changing init system on upgrades (including sid) > > 2) Inform about alternate init systems for new installations > > 2 is quite far-fetched. Why not a debconf warning to tell there are > alternatives to nano? And another one to tell there are alternatives to > bash? The installation will take several hours to let the user know > there are alternatives to almost any component. > -- > Identify bad input; recover if possible. > - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger) >
