On Tue, 26 Jan 2016, Peter Duffy wrote: > No one is saying that sysvinit is perfect. What I can't grasp is why > replace it with something which is no less imperfect, and is almost > certainly worse in at least some respects - and to make that replacement > unavoidable and mandatory. Distros weighed up the advantages and disadvantages, and made a decision as to what they thought was best. They even shared their reasoning. > I'm also still trying to figure out in what way systemd is supposed to > be "better". https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/systemd#Why_Debian_should_default_to_systemd jh