| > It might be because people did report on in trying to run GNOME 3.8 without logind, and reported massive faults? If you by 'it' mean the fact that the distributions switched to systemd, I would be declined to discount the speculation that 'it was because people did report in trying to run GNOME 3.8 without logind [...]'. Do you honestly think that Fedora, Arch or any of the other distributions would not try to evaluate other strategies of getting GNOME 3.8 to run? Replacing the process manager and PID0 is not an endeavor chosen lightly - it is a massive undertaking that every distribution would have weight very carefully. "Oh, there are people having trouble running GNOME 3.8 without systemd present" seems not to be enough reason to go through all the pain of switching to systemd. It's rather that systemd offered something that systemd offered something that the preceding mess of shell scripts and conventions didn't offer; consistency and reliability, as much as you might doubt that. Have a look at the Debian general resolution with regards to systemd and the provided arguments by the proponents[0]. > I've been tinkering at alternative I would be very glad if your alternative implementation were even modestly successful. And I'd be thoroughly thankful if it managed to replace systemd. Not because I think systemd is badly implemented (I've yet to see any actual evidence in that regard from any detractor) but because systemd needs competition and I would prefer to see some well established and stable protocols between the individual parts of systemd. That will only happen if said protocols get also provided by alternative implementations. With regards to you re-using the systemd configuration format; that's probably a smart move. Systemd is at this point a well established fact and anyone trying to best it at its game will have to make is as easy to migrate as possible. Hurdles like a new file format might well be too much for an indifferent user. [0] https://www.debian.org/vote/2019/vote_002 |
As for supporting configuration format - it's an obvious move, though more as "import" rather than only source of truth (different internal data models), and the format... is not exactly good (mostly due to lack of sane defaults that start to hit you once you wander beyond functionality that can be summarised as "SysV initd plus dependencies")