Bug#727708: Thoughts/Summary on the init-system

2014-02-14 Thread Andreas Barth
* Andreas Metzler (ametz...@bebt.de) [140119 19:18]: > could you provide a little bit of background why you consider both > "Systemd on Linux, openrc/sysv-rc on non-Linux" and "Upstart > everywhere" viable long-term but not "systemd on Linux and upstart on > !Linux"? Because upstart won't surviv

Bug#727708: Thoughts/Summary on the init-system

2014-01-19 Thread Cameron Norman
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Steven Chamberlain wrote: On 19/01/14 18:15, Andreas Metzler wrote: could you provide a little bit of background why you consider both "Systemd on Linux, openrc/sysv-rc on non-Linux" and "Upstart everywhere" viable long-term but not "systemd on Linux and up

Bug#727708: Thoughts/Summary on the init-system

2014-01-19 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 19/01/14 18:15, Andreas Metzler wrote: > could you provide a little bit of background why you consider both > "Systemd on Linux, openrc/sysv-rc on non-Linux" and "Upstart > everywhere" viable long-term but not "systemd on Linux and upstart on > !Linux"? As a porter, I'd slightly prefer we swit

Bug#727708: Thoughts/Summary on the init-system

2014-01-19 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2014-01-19 Andreas Barth wrote: [...] > On the linux ports, all would work. On the kbsd ports I believe that both > upstart and openrc could be working, but none is yet. For hurd, at least > openrc could and probably also upstart. > > Porting systemd to kbsd or hurd is not realistic from what

Bug#727708: Thoughts/Summary on the init-system

2014-01-19 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi together, first of all, sorry for being so late to this party. I'll start with describing a few facts, observations and thoughts, and come to my conclusions at the end of this mail. I don't write references at places where I believe had already sufficient coverage by others and/or are more or