On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Mike Bird mgb-trinity@yosemite.net wrote:
On Thu May 4 2017 09:39:44 Felix Miata wrote:
zlists@ns.sympatico.ca composed on 2017-05-04 13:24 (UTC-0300):
Do people working on Trinity really want to alienate people who use systemd-free distros?
Of course not, but resources are limited. Someone competent would have to come forward and commit to handle the extra work that supporting multiple init systems entails.
It seems extraordinarily unlikely that Tim would make such a mistake but if TDE broke sysvinit support or required systemd we would be unable to continue with TDE, just as we now use Devuan instead of Debian.
likewise i would no longer be able to recommend the use of TDE, nor would i be able to install it or maintain it for my clients. i would be forced to go to the drastic measure of setting up a chroot environment to run an older version of TDE, along with a fixed snapshot of an OS, with a view to keeping that chroot environment pretty much forever, and to run all other applications in some abortion-of-a-method (firefox, libreoffice) with up-to-date binaries.
the fact that TDE *HAS NOT* been affected by one of the saddest and most damaging events ever to occur in the history of free software is one of its saving graces.
l.