[Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Samuel Verschelde at 07/03/12 21:34 did gyre and gimble:
> Le mercredi 7 mars 2012 17:56:46, Thomas Backlund a écrit :
>> 07.03.2012 18:20, Colin Guthrie skrev:
>>> No, they will get systemd. We just need to resolve an issue with the
>>> upgrade to make this happen properly (could be a urpmi bug or something
>>> similar).
>>
>> I have now renamed sysvinit to sysvinit-legacy
>>
>> And both sysvinit-legacy and systemd-sysvinit provides sysvinit.
>>
>> And we have systemd-sysvinit in prefer.vendor.list so upgrades will now
>> choose systemd by default
>>
> 
> I apparently missed a few meetings or e-mails where this was discussed, but 
> wasn't the initial plan to keep sysvinit by default in mga2 and switch to 
> systemd by default in mga3? Wasn't the switch to systemd by default in 
> cauldron a temporary switch in order to get more testing?

Nope, this was never the case.

The idea was to switch to systemd in mga2, but still support sysvinit.
By mga3 we'll drop sysvinit completely.

We very much want to encourage the use of systemd in this release.

Col


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