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Debian General Resolution to Prevent Init System Coupling Fails to Pass

posted by janrinok on Wednesday November 19 2014, @11:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-hope-we-don't-regret-this dept.

novak writes:

Ian Jackson's general resolution to prevent init system coupling has failed to pass, the majority vote deciding that the resolution is unnecessary. This means that not only will Debian's default init be systemd, but packages will not be required to support other init systems. Presumably, this means that using other init systems on Debian (without using systemd as a base) will not be possible without major workarounds, or possibly at all. It also leaves the future of Debian projects such as kFreeBSD unclear, as systemd is linux specific.

The vote results can be found here

The winners are:

Option 4 "General Resolution is not required"

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 19 2014, @11:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 19 2014, @11:55AM (#117597)

    NetBSD sysupgrade reminds me of the old Debian installers that just unpacked the base system from a tarball, before they started that bullshit of installing every individual base package separately.

    The only reason I stopped using NetBSD was binary upgrades really sucked. Well you know, with sysupgrade and pkgin they don't fucking suck anymore.

    Goodbye Linux. It wasn't nice knowing you, bitch.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 19 2014, @02:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 19 2014, @02:53PM (#117691)

    Yep.

    Linux has been sucking ass for years now, maybe System D was the tipping point for some folks, but let's not forget some of the classics:

    xinetd
    rpmfind.net
    *kits
    dbus
    apparmor
    selinux
    upstart
    GNOME
    whoopsie
    avahi
    pulseaudio

    ...and probably a dozen other abominations...

    It's high time to get out.