Re: New Group Calls For Boycotting Systemd

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On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 10:31:45AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 16:11:37 +0100,
>  Sérgio Basto <sergio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >[1]
> >since Fedora have some responsibility, unfortunately I think the group
> >have some valid reasons , systemd should be the replacement of
> >sysvinit  , a built in DHCP !? why ? and others integration like crontab
> >should be modular, for someone else could use his own crontab .
> >OTOH , the support of systemd is not good, we got bug opened and they
> >are ignored as nothing happens, as for example bug
> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1088619
> 
> Boycotting systemd seems like a waste of resources. The various
> legacy init systems have significant problems and staying with them
> forever isn't going to happen. If there is a large set of people
> that don't like the direction systemd is going, they should either
> be constructively participating in the systemd development process
> or trying to develop another alternative that fixes the problems
> with legcay init systems while moving in a direction they do want,
> if they want to accomplish something. I don't expect anything useful
> to come out of a boycott.

The boycottsystemd website is stupid.

However there is a wider problem here.  The "systemd of Fedora 14/15"
is not the systemd of today.

We need to decide if just because you manage to get an important core
package into Fedora 4 years ago, that means you can forever more push
any old stuff you want into Fedora, without going back and consulting
with the community and FESCo.

Rich.

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