Comment 66 for bug 448095

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Sander van Grieken (sander-vangrieken) wrote : Re: [Bug 448095] Re: resolvconf starts after ifupdown, does not pick the dns-nameserver and dns-search lines up from /etc/network/interfaces

On Wednesday 15 September 2010 19:27:47 Liraz wrote:
> Many thanks to everyone who helped track down this regression, which
> effected TurnKey Linux users of the new TurnKey Core Lucid-based beta as
> well:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/turnkeylinux/+bug/596560
>
> IMHO, for desktop usage upstart has great potential. But for servers
> it's a net loss. Booting a few seconds faster doesn't matter as much as
> stability and simplicity. I just wish there was some way to save all of
> this asynchronous cleverness for the desktop. In a few years once Ubuntu
> and Debian transition fully to upstart we should be OK, but now it's
> ugly out there.

Hmm I'm starting to doubt that, since many distributions are moving to systemd, and none
except Ubuntu (and derivatives) to upstart. This will likely mean that most upstream
projects will not take upstart into consideration, so Ubuntu alone will have to maintain
it. If this bug is any indication......