On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 06:54:31 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > 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.
Guilty as charged ;-) > > 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. It seems that most of the criticism is about the way it was developed and by whom, rather than the merits or demerits of the code itself, > I sometimes describe systemd as the anti-busybox. > > But, I don't want to derail the thread entirely... I think you're too late :) -- Neil Bothwick Make like a tree and leave.
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