On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 06:51:56 +0100 Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 18 September 2014 06:28:48 Don Armstrong wrote: > > You might also need to either do the work to help make it > > supported, or help enable other people to do the work. > > Do any work to get what they want? Heaven forfend! > Don't be rude. Many of us are not system programmers (some of us aren't professional programmers at all, we just use computers) but are (sometimes) able to gather enough useful information to help report or even fix a bug. But there's no point in putting any effort into reporting the kind of thing Don mentions if we already know that nothing will be done about it. This is the basic purpose of this whole set of threads. Is there *really* going to be a practical alternative to using systemd, and if so, will Debian support it? It is, for example, perfectly possible to use Open Office in testing or unstable but it isn't available from the repositories for anything later than Wheezy. But using an untracked Open Office won't prevent the use of anything else, except possibly libreoffice unless care is taken. So we're looking for some kind of direction here, hoping that someone who actually knows for sure will tell us whether the use of systemd as init will be completely unavoidable in future Debian releases. If not, if it will only be the 'default', then it may be worth putting a bit of effort into making an alternative practical. If, as seems likely, the people who actually run Linux are determined that every Linux installation in future must be controlled by systemd, we'd like to know that as well, as it will assist in future planning. One of the many reasons for using Linux rather than Windows is that it isn't a monoculture. If it will in future be a monoculture, if this is all working towards a single, officially certified and legal Linux distribution, that's one less reason for using it. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140918094449.76ea5...@jresid.jretrading.com
