[Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

Wed Mar 7 23:08:09 CET 2012

'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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