Debian decides on systemd—for now

Posted Feb 14, 2014 0:28 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Debian decides on systemd—for now by xtifr
Parent article: Debian decides on systemd—for now

Oh, come on. The mess of SysV init scripts is almost as far from portable as humanly possible.

Debian decides on systemd—for now

Posted Feb 14, 2014 7:41 UTC (Fri) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link] (1 responses)

Which kind of portability are you talking about?

Debian decides on systemd—for now

Posted Feb 14, 2014 8:47 UTC (Fri) by Thue (guest, #14277) [Link]

According to https://lwn.net/Articles/584175/ , each Linux distro often had their own initscripts per package. When sysv init scripts are not even portable across Linux distributions, that can't be called anything but unportable.