Re: [LUG] Stupidty - was Re: Damn it Debian

[Simon Avery <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx>]

Turns out this really was a controversial decision.

The Debian list makes for some interesting reading, including the public implosion of at least one member of the Technical Comittee

https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/threads.html#00352 

(Read threads mentioning Technical Committee, TC and Ian Jackson)

Politics can be very destructive. :(

On 10 February 2014 17:40, bad apple <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 10/02/14 07:42, Tom wrote:
>
>> I'm not entirely sure why sysvinit needs to be binned, but init isn't
>> an area of specialty for me and I accept the guides I've read that
>> talk about speed, interaction and new features. Having been bitten
>> many times by zoneminder not starting because it's being started
>> before mysql, leaving a cctv box twiddling its thumbs until I
>> notice,  I can appreciate that something else might be better.
>>
> Not familiar with zoneminder but a program that fails to gracefully
> wait for services to start needs a look at with percussive tools.
> Tom te tom te tom
>

Ironically, one of the few things systemd does handle relatively well is
stepped dependencies during boot via the "required by" argument to it's
system units (which are similar to individual init scripts in practice,
if not in theory)...

Still not a good enough reason to use it though.

Regards

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