On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Rashif Ray Rahman <schiv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On 25 April 2012 23:25, Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I strongly believe that should we move away from intscripts it needs > > to be to an event-driven system (such as systemd or upstart) and it > > was not clear from the webpage that OpenRC provides this. > > > > I concur. > > Although the current init works for me and won't encourage me to shift to > things like systemd anytime soon, efforts towards introducing alternatives > would have to be justified by how much more they're able to bring to the > table. Simply being different or offering a few bonuses won't be enough, > IMO. Systemd is something dynamic and is what fits that ideal model, a > model which satisfies the needs of the present and hopefully the future. > > Otherwise, I like my init as simple as it currently is. Dependency is never > a problem as it's very little work to manually ensure they're met. > > > -- > GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1 > The problem I have with a systemd like init system is that it's way too much overkill for a server. I like our current situation as we have an extremely simple init system and users can drop in systemd if they so choose. --Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/
