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Rumblings of a Debian Fork Amidst Anger Over systemd

posted by n1 on Sunday September 28 2014, @06:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the yet-another-systemd-story dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Controversy is nothing new when it comes to systemd. Many people find this new Linux init system to be inherently flawed in most ways, yet it is still gaining traction with major distros like Arch Linux, openSUSE, Fedora, and soon both Ubuntu and Debian GNU/Linux. The adoption of systemd for Debian 8 "Jessie" has been particularly fraught with strife and animosity.

Some have described the systemd adoption process as having been a "coup", while others are vowing to stick with Debian 7 as long as possible before moving to another distro. Others are so upset by what they see as a complete betrayal of the Debian and open source communities that there is serious discussion about forking Debian. Regardless of one's stance toward systemd, it cannot be argued that it has become one of the most divisive and disruptive changes in the long history of the Debian project, threatening to destroy both the project and the community that has built up around it.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday September 28 2014, @12:22PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday September 28 2014, @12:22PM (#99178) Journal

    As a workaround you could create and install a package "sanity" which declares conflict with systemd. Then any attempt to install systemd will tell you that you'd first have to remove sanity.

    Now all you have to do is to make the kernel package depend on sanity, and systemd cannot be installed any more. :-)

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  • (Score: 2) by present_arms on Sunday September 28 2014, @12:58PM

    by present_arms (4392) on Sunday September 28 2014, @12:58PM (#99194) Homepage Journal

    That's actually a cool idea :)

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 28 2014, @01:19PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 28 2014, @01:19PM (#99198)

      A better idea is for Debian to just not include systemd at all.

      • (Score: 2) by present_arms on Sunday September 28 2014, @02:58PM

        by present_arms (4392) on Sunday September 28 2014, @02:58PM (#99221) Homepage Journal

        Right, but it seems to be a done deal and anyone objecting seems to be silenced, it's heartbreaking that a once great distro is willing to be this stupid.

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