On 11/11/19 11:54, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 5:38 AM Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: >> >> On 09/11/19 19:51, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> >>> Only if somebody has created a generator for openrc, which I doubt. >>> It was obviously a semi-trollish comment. >>> >> Now that's harsh! Although yes I'm sure he was tweaking tails - hence >> the "tongue in cheek" smiley. > > I didn't intend to suggest that I thought it was mean-spirited. Just > stirring the pot. > Fair enough. Trouble is, you can't be too careful with what you say on the internet - it's too easily taken out of context or just plain mis-understood. >> >> Fact is, there are a lot of people out there who hate systemd because >> it's been successful, and it's been successful because it sticks to the >> nix philosophy of "do one thing, and do it well". >> > > Now, THAT is a semi-trollish comment if I ever saw one. :) > > That said, you could argue that the individual components of systemd > do generally do one thing well. I think the criticism is more in the > packaging, and that the components mostly don't interchange with > anything non-systemd. Though as we can see from eudev/elogind and so > on that isn't strictly the case. > > I sometimes describe systemd as the anti-busybox. > > But, I don't want to derail the thread entirely... > Poettering is very much "do it right, if something else is already broken then just break it completely". Much better for a computer, but ruffles peoples' feathers ...
That said, yes we are derailing this thread somewhat :-) Cheers, Wol
