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.
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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora