Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
> On 2014-02-20 4:04 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> No, actually, I think whatever is defined as the current default should
>>> dictate which group should be required to do the work.
>
>
>> I think this is where we think differently (regarding this particular
>> point). The work must be done by *whomever* wants to do the job. So if
>> the systemd people want to do a profile that's fine (and this already
>> happened); but if they don't want to, nobody can force them to do it
>> (this is academic right now, since they already did the [pretty trivial]
>> work).
>>
>> If the systemd people did not wanted to do the job, then, since you
>> can't force them, the people *not* wanting systemd would be the ones
>> required to do it. And that makes absolutely no sense.
>
>
> I think we agree, but you keep saying we don't... ;)
>
> The difference is, since OpenRC is the default, all of the existing profiles
> are, by definition, OpenRC based profiles. So, people who don't want systemd
> simply have to do... nothing!

OK, I see your point.

> As I said before, it is people who want systemd who currently have to 'do
> something', and that is as it should be, unless/until the default of OpenRC
> is changed to systemd.

Agreed.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México