<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/657345/">https://lwn.net/Articles/657345/</a><div><br></div><div>Some choice lines:<br></div><div><br></div><div>&quot;<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">Initial discussions for replacing the System V init system began as far back as 2007, but pressure grew in recent years, included considerable demand from system administrators and upstream projects (typically wanting specific features like support for logind or journald).&quot;</span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3">&quot;</font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">Finally, they created the </span><a href="https://packages.debian.org/sid/systemd-shim" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,139);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">systemd-shim</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"> package, which supports certain downstream projects like GNOME that have hard-coded dependencies on individual systemd components.&quot; (aka &quot;the problem&quot;)</span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3">&quot;</font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">Another upcoming change is support for networkd, a lean interface for bringing up and taking down network interfaces.&quot;</span><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3"><br clear="all"></font><div><br></div><div>&quot;<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">Other systemd-related changes that may or may not land in time for stretch include the addition of kdbus support.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"> &quot;</span></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>James Sumners<br><a href="http://james.sumners.info/" target="_blank">http://james.sumners.info/</a> (technical profile)</div><div><a href="http://jrfom.com/" target="_blank">http://jrfom.com/</a> (personal site)</div><div><a href="http://haplo.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">http://haplo.bandcamp.com/</a> (band page)</div></div></div></div></div>
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