Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> writes: > So, just to clarify… so, it’s ok to hate systemd, but it’s not ok to > hate sysvinit (spaghetti of shell scripts)?
Personally, I'd be happy if people would just stop hating on any free software in general. Even buggy free software is someone's effort, released into the world hopefully for our benefit. These conversations would be so much easier to have if they were framed in terms of costs and benefits, different use cases, and personal preferences, rather than making supposedly-objective statements grounded in strong personal opinions about the merits or worthlessness of some piece of software. Far, far beyond init systems, I wish we would be less denegrating and dismissive even of small pieces of software with obvious problems that people propose packaging. We can say that something needs various improvements to make sense to include in Debian without hating on it. Maybe that sort of positive and thankful attitude would then carry over to larger and more controversial pieces of software. (And yes, I wish upstreams would take that same advice, but I know how to preach to this audience and have less ability to preach to other audiences, so....) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
