[CentOS] Just need to vent

Tue Jan 26 11:57:59 UTC 2016
John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk>

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