On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Patrick Murphy <thegerdur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Could you give me a brief explanation as to why init scripts are better? >> I'm newish to Unix style operating systems > > As I said; they are tried-and-true since *decades*, all the problems > have been ironed out by slow small changes, so if somebody has > problems they are probably hitting very few people. > > Switching to systemd is not a small change, it's a revolutionary > change, with the potential to break many people's boot (it has broken > things in Fedora, and openSUSE, and it's happening in Arch Linux as > well). So, a sensible person would wait until a sensible time to make > the big switch (which is clearly not now). "Bleeding edge" Look it up. Your assumption that the primary purpose of Arch is to be a long-term stable distro is misguided. Debian is over that way. Its not even like systemd is some new software that just appeared a month ago...
