The 27/08/12, Tom Gundersen wrote: > As has been mentioned, the problems I foresee are (ordered from > "currently a problem" to "a potential problem a long time from now": > > 1) not enough people testing initscripts. This would be easy to help > out with :-) > 2) third-party software (such as gnome/polkit/...) getting hard > dependencies on booting with systemd (essentially everything that now > depends on consolekit, and maybe more). If you don't use the affected > software this does not matter, if you do it is not really easy to work > around. > 3) devs at some point no longer wanting to maintain the various rc > scripts. If people are committed enough I guess an "rc scripts" > package could be put in the AUR to deal with this case (if ever it > becomes a problem, which it might not). Notice that debian is working on a tool to automagically convert unit systemd files into initscripts. https://github.com/akhilvij/systemd-to-sysvinit-converter Might be worth giving it a try and contribute to get easier support of sysvinit in the long term. -- Nicolas Sebrecht
