Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi > > > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 9:23 PM, lee wrote: > >> Then they should do it again. >> > > That is a Debian maintainers decision. That doesn't mean that they shouldn't do it again. >> That doesn't mean that users shouldn't get to vote. > > It just means voting isn't how distribution choose system components. Which doesn't mean that that it is a good way to do so. >> Switching to something > >> because there is no alternative means that it wasn't possible to make a >> choice. Am I to assume that all major distributions were forced to use >> systemd? > > > Forced? This is open source software. If distributions wanted to have > alternatives they are free to develop one or continue maintaining things > like ConsoleKit. They voluntarily choose to use systemd because it was the > best maintained choice See, they didn't really have a choice. Developing an alternative or continuing to maintain alternatives requires resources which they might not have or rather devote to something else. >> I don't know about logind. Why would that be required? I can still log >> in without just fine when systemd isn't used. > > > Perhaps you should look up what logind does yourself to understand why it > is required. It is fairly basic information if you want to engage in a > debate about systemd. Again there's no argument here that speaks for systemd. -- Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
