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Debian looks at OpenRCDebian looks at OpenRCPosted Aug 23, 2012 20:42 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)In reply to: Debian looks at OpenRC by drag Parent article: Debian looks at OpenRC
> That sounds terrible.
Why?
> What Debian really needs to do is just make a choice. They only need one init system.
Says who? Different applications and workloads may need different init systems. A person may need a "give me a text shell as fast as you can" or "restart the database really fast" or "show me my graphical desktop, even before the network is up" use cases. Some workloads are better served by upstart's logging and start-daemon-on-demand. There is no init system whose size fits all.
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Debian looks at OpenRC Posted Aug 24, 2012 14:16 UTC (Fri) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]
> Why?
Because every moving part in the system increases the amount of testing that needs to be done in order to ensure that things actually work together well. Of couse, that kind of testing never happens, so what we get isn't choice between several different, but working implementations, but choice between several different kinds of crap, the least bad of which one has to put up with.
> Says who? Different applications and workloads may need different init systems. A person may need a "give me a text shell as fast as you can" or "restart the database really fast" or "show me my graphical desktop, even before the network is up" use cases. Some workloads are better served by upstart's logging and start-daemon-on-demand. There is no init system whose size fits all.
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