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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] systemd
From:       Todd Rme <toddrme2178 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2017-07-16 1:41:26
Message-ID: CADb7s=t1tN0jsF+K-VFA8JMr4YviD3dNpc0K4BEcHtnc-rTDTg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 6:50 PM, Larry Stotler <larrystotler@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 4:12 PM, ianseeks <bingmybong@btinternet.com> wrote:
>> How do you think is actually in the init system? Don't get fooled into
>> thinking the "extras" in the systemd project are actually in the init system
>> itself.
>
> It's not really the extras so much as the other projects that intend
> to make systemd a dependency(ie Gnome).  What if someone releases
> something better in the future?  Then these dependencies would
> discourage adoption.


systemd uses publickly-available, documented interfaces. If, in the
future, someone wants to replace it, they can provide
backwards-compatibility shims, just as systemd has done for sysv. In
fact some groups have already done that with parts of systemd.

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