On 6/7/2017 11:28 AM, Always Learning wrote: >> In the case of CentOS-7 .. you don't need to create a whole new >> distro, you can just petition the CentOS Project Board to create a >> Special Interest Group to get access to CentOS Project controlled >> resources to build packages (and get them rolled into our mirrors, >> etc.) to use something other than systemd. > Excellent idea. I'll gladly sign any such petition:-) but will you contribute to building the non-systemd packages, and working out how to retrofit old sysV init back into everything via patches, etc ? every RPM that interacts with systemd will need to be 'fixed' to do it the old way, with init.d scripts. repositories like postgres, EPEL, etc won't work, either, as their C7 packaged daemons are all configured to use systemd. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz