On 07/14/2010 03:33 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Wed, 14.07.10 15:18, Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >> >> On 07/14/2010 03:08 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: >>> I'd also argue that simply changing a symlink in /etc/systemd/system is >>> a lot easier to understand and discoverable than having to edit old and >>> crufty /etc/inittab which to fully understand you really must have a >>> historical Unix background for. >> >> Strangely enough, a lot of Fedora users actually have a Unix/Linux >> background. ;-) >> >> "Easier to understand and discoverable" seems to vary from one's point >> of view. As the author of the change in question, of course it's easier >> to understand and discover. >> >> From the standpoint of -everyone else-, the change would be breaking >> scripts and human knowledge needlessly. There is no urgent need to >> eliminate /etc/inittab. > > Well, not "everyone" else, only those which come from old-world Unix. > > I would have prefered if you would have taken up this fight with the > Upstart people when it was added to Fedora. We are just finishing the > work Upstart began in this area, and I am not really willing to fight > now a battle that if at all should have been fought some releases ago when > Upstart was adopted. > > I am sorry, but I am not going to provide full compatibility with > inittab within systemd. It's not supported in Upstart and I won't do a > backwards flip and support it in systemd again. Runlevel inittab changing works in all releases up to and including Fedora 13. That should not change. Jeff -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
