It remains to be seen if the other distros can hold out forever. Red Hat is a major upstream contributor, and we still don't really know how much of the system they plan on making systemd dependent. Pottering has expressed one of his goals is to homoginize the distros. Supposedly, they are re-thinking package management as well. I wonder if they can force that via systemd. It really feels like they just want everybody to run Red Hat with a Debian or Arch or whatever branding stamped on it. I am truly worried about the future of the Linux Distro. I am only speculating, but if Red Hat were to succeed in pushing such an agenda, I think it would be time to let Linux die a graceful death. I mean, if it turns out that is the case, it would be very hard for the distros that adopted it to back out without having to be set back by an order of magnitude. Sure, you can just switch Init systems, but you would also have to come up with some solution for every piece that systemd has swallowed in the last few years, or rely on things like shims, but that feels like a very inelegant solution -ie a stop-gap measure rather than a permanent solution.
"Quand certains râlent contre systemd, d'autres s'attaquent aux vrais problèmes." (merci Sinma !)
[^] # Re: Z spotted
Posté par xcomcmdr . En réponse à la dépêche systemd : l’init martyrisé, l’init bafoué, mais l’init libéré !. Évalué à 2.
Suffit de fouiller un peu sur le Web. Exemple :
"Quand certains râlent contre systemd, d'autres s'attaquent aux vrais problèmes." (merci Sinma !)