Re: [HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

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On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 01:58:33AM -0400, James Antill wrote:
> 1. Leave /etc/inittab functionally as it is in Fed-13, with 3 and 5
> doing the obvious thing and the big comment saying stuff about systemd
> instead of upstart. If people want to opt. in to "the new way" they can
> just cp /dev/empty /etc/inittab.
> 
> 2. For F-15 or F-16 change inittab to be:
> 
> id:default:initdefault:
> 
> ...and have anaconda write that out and configure using a symlink
> instead. Users can still change it to 3 or 5, or whatever ... but if
> they don't it'll work as though inittab doesn't exist (the "new" way).
> 
> 3. At some point you remove support for parsing inittab, so people have
> to configure using symlinks ... some people will still not like you
> removing free compat. code, but assuming you wait a few years at least
> "everything" will support "the new way".

I agree.  You went through all the trouble to make systemd backwards 
compatible with /etc/fstab, why not /etc/inittab for the default 
runlevel too?
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