Waschbüsch Martin wrote:

>
> Now, since, from what I can see, systemd is by design a cathedral
> approach, it will conflict with the bazaar approach as shown above.

Now that is a very concise, and elegant, description of the situation!
Kudos.

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> This means that by virtue of the 'freedom of choice' paradigm:
> If systemd upstream or any interested party puts in effort to make
> systemd fit in with the bazaar approach, then we should welcome them
> with open arms.
>
> If no one does that work, then systemd will not work in Devuan.
>
> But the reason for that, and that is the key, will be:
> It will not be supported because upstream chose not to be compatible
> with the bazaar approach, not because we did anything to keep it out.
>
> Does that make more sense?
>
>

And again, a very elegant statement of an appropriate response!

Thank you,

Miles Fidelman

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