Re: Devuan
Steve Litt <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 03:45:02 +0200 Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/11/2016 02:57 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > > And then later in the thread the Debian Dev crybabies bemoaned the > > extra work of maintaining both a sysvinit run script (which they've > > been doing for years) and a systemd unit file (which is advertised > > as being dirt simple). They decided not to guarantee continuing > > sysvinit. A few months later, during the Debian-User uprising, Ian > > Jackson's created a General Resolution for loose coupling of init > > systems (the way it had always been) > > If it is not your work it is easy. If it isyour work, it is hard. The easiest thing in the world would have been to leave a working system as-is. > That makes me think that maintaining 2 init systems is not your work. If I maintained a daemon, I'd have little trouble writing both run scripts and unit files. If I maintained anything else, I'd make sure it didn't depend on which PID1 was in use. SteveT Steve Litt July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques