"Linux distro maintainers wanted to move on from SysV Init"
LOL no. distro maintainers wanted to ship gnome, which was product tied to systemd. No systemd, no gnome, that simple.
LOL no. distro maintainers wanted to ship gnome, which was product tied to systemd. No systemd, no gnome, that simple.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=1729;bug=7...
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1149530#p1149530
For what is worth, all the Debian maintainers I know, even those who are not systemd supporters, felt that sysvinit had to go in a way or the other (eg. during the default init debate the options were systemd and Upstart, sysvint was doomed to be replaced and only kept as a compatibility option in any case.)