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"Linux distro maintainers wanted to move on from SysV Init" LOL no. distro maintainers wanted to ship gnome, which was product tied to systemd. No systemd, n

• EmanueleAina 11y ago
  Are you seriously saying that most distribution maintainers were happy with sysvinit? For what is worth, all the Debian maintainers I know, even those who are not systemd supporters, felt that sysvinit had to go in a way or the other (eg. during the default init debate the options were systemd and Upstart, sysvint was doomed to be replaced and only kept as a compatibility option in any case.)
• the_why_of_y 11y ago
  Perhaps you could benefit from reading what some of the people making these decisions have written on the topic. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=1729;bug=727708 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=1729;bug=7... https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1149530#p1149530 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1149530#p1149530