2013/7/22 Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org>: > Игорь Пашев <pashev.i...@gmail.com> writes: >> 2013/7/22 Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net>: > >>> We would be effectively "locked in". > >> We are locked in sysvinit. > > Except we're not: both systemd and upstart support sysvinit scripts. > Which is why we can do a gradual migration, or even switch back and forth > between various alternatives. However, the native formats of both systemd > and upstart (and, for that matter, OpenRC) are mutually incompatible, so > migration from one to another is much more difficult than migration from > sysvinit to any of the alternatives once a substantial number of init > scripts are written in the new format and the old init scripts are > dropped. > > That's the point. > > I can certainly see why people may not consider that a significant > drawback, or may consider other advantages more than worth that tradeoff, > and indeed we do make tradeoffs like that all the time. I'm not horribly > worried about it personally. But that doesn't change the fact that it > *is* a potential drawback. If we adopt a single alternative and move a > substantial number of the current init scripts to the new format, we have > locked ourselves into that alternative in a more substantial way than we > currently have (where we're using a portable, if horrible, init format > that is supported by all the alternatives). Well, if a new alternative is written in future, and there already is a substantial number of scripts in $format, it will almost certainly support these, and we can migrate away to the new system. It will be the same situation as we currently have sith SysV-Init. So I wouldn't worry about this at all :-) Regards, Matthias
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