Top-posting because my question is about something in the linked threads...
In one comment was said the following:
Can I ask the systemd people to design a working solution for opting out? I
can't support this initiative without such a solution and I would be happy
to work with the systemd people to reach it, ie I'll test.
This already went before the Council, and the decision was that
INSTALL_MASK IS the working solution for opting out. If somebody
wants to come up with a better one and propose it they're of course
welcome to, but in the meantime, INSTALL_MASK is the official
solution.
Where is this 'INSTALL_MASK' option for opting out of systemd completely
documented? Googling only finds references to this discussion?
Thanks,
Charles
On 2013-07-30 6:40 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote:
There is going to be resistance. Two months ago there was a huge
thread in gentoo-dev, because a package maintaner complained that his
co-maintainer added a systemd unit to the package:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/85792
In the end, the maintainer rage-quit:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2551
However, this is the extreme behaviour: most developers (and rational
people) agree to adding systemd unit files to all packages, and we
have much better coverage now that some months ago.
If users cooperate opening bugs adding systemd unit files (after
testing them in their machines), the coverage is going to grow even
faster.
