On Thursday 05 April 2007 07:38:26 Patrice Dumas wrote: > I think this is a very wrong direction for fedora. Free software is > about choice. And also being able to test innovative technologies. > The default init system should be privileged, but all should be present, > such that power users are able to test and use them. The directions that > developers and packagers want to follow, how they spend their time is > their business. If there are enough people interested in new init > systems, lets have them. As a project we have to watch out the packaging > quality, the integration in the distro and have good defaults. Our > mandate should not to be in the way of initiatives. At the same time, I don't want to stamp the Fedora name on something that has 6 half working init system choices, but none that work fully. It's the same reason we don't ship 6 different kernel compiles (other than xen or no xen, smp or no smp, these are because one won't work across all hardware sets/systems). Certain things in the distro have to be rock solid, the init system is one of those. Now, I'm all for seeing development happen and initiatives. You can create a secondary repo around trying out a new init system. I just don't want to see them clutter up the main repos that every user gets access to. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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