sysvinit VS initng VS upstart VS launchd (Was: Future New Init for FC7?)

[Rahul Sundaram]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 10:50:42AM +0200, Rudolf Kastl wrote:
>> there are around 20 wms i know offhand that arent in the distribution yet.
> 
> Ok, I am not a wm specialist, I am just saying that actually there is
> a large choice of wm thanks to fedora extras, and our job is to
> integrate them, not to reject because it is harder to maintain many wm
> and confusing for the users.

A window manager is very different from a init script system. We don't 
currently allow individual maintainers to put different kernels into 
Fedora repository.  A init system is very similar.

For a alternatively init system to properly work with the system 
requires all packages that provide init scripts to also provide a 
different one for each different init system that we have in the 
repository unless they have a SysV init compatibility mode.

This is quite a large amount of integration work required which 
packagers not be interested in. Some sort of experimental version is ok 
for testers in the development branch but this wouldnt scale much for 
the "stable" branches that we have to maintain.

Do you see that as a problem? If so what is the solution that you are 
suggesting?

Rahul