On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:30 AM, Dmitry Smirnov <only...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wednesday, 26 September 2018 3:05:32 PM AEST Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: >> appreciated, dmitry: apologies, it catches me off-guard when things >> don't work. > > No worries. It would be nice to introduce init scripts to GitLab. > With your motivation it looks like it might actually happen. :)
:) >> it was just that the decision to rail-road systemd in > > Hold on here please. Using systemd as a default init system was well > balanced, collective decision, thoroughly discussed with all pros and cons > carefully considered. somewhere i have the post-analysis from the voting: i can't remember off the top of my head, however if you look it up the records of the votes clearly show that systemd was absolute dead-last in all respects on all questions asked in the vote. > You have to respect that. if the people who made the decision had respected the actual wishes of the debian developers who voted, i would be tempted to agree... however as a *user* i was not consulted about the consequences of the decision... so i *genuinely* can't agree. i can *understand* why the decision was made... > There is nothing unethical in choosing technically superior init system that > suits most GNU/Linux distributions. We have made a choice and moved on - > what's done is done and there is no point complaining about it. > > >> (which is software that itself is being developed incredibly >> unethically) > > I do not understand what do you mean. it's a long, long story, that takes quite a lot of time to explain (and that's one of the problems: most people simply don't have time to go over this, comprehensively). perhaps it might be best to take this offline from this bugreport, if you're interested to do so? l.
