Debian reconsiders init-system diversity

Posted Nov 14, 2019 22:28 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Debian reconsiders init-system diversity by mgb
Parent article: Debian reconsiders init-system diversity

> Applications want to be portable.
> No serious application depends on systemd because you'd be locking out 98-99% of your potential user base.

Hard dependency, no -- but any serious application will already have a non-trivial amount of platform-specific code, even when using portability-enhancing frameworks like Qt.