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Init systems in Debian

Init systems in Debian

Posted Jan 28, 2013 23:00 UTC (Mon) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950)
In reply to: Init systems in Debian by man_ls
Parent article: Poettering: The Biggest Myths

Various components have support for systemd. Some still fall back to other methods at runtime, some do not. This does add a lot of complexity, potential bugs, etc. I noticed this when Mageia switched to fully systemd in the development version. That just took a few days, because quite easy if the goal is systemd only. If you want to support all, I guess you might need to write some code because not every component (package) compiled with systemd support has that support as a runtime extra feature.


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