[kwlug-disc] What is all this about systemd?

[unsolicited]

It ain't broke - they should stop trying to fix it.

Reading most of it, I'm getting an itchy feeling on the back of my neck 
that their real goal is to permit commercial / proprietary / for pay 
core packages to seep into today's distros.

And that they don't get we don't want to be bothered with unending 
fiddly bit updates that largely bring no value - stable, get on with our 
day of using, update when all the valuable links in the chain vet the 
value of the update.

On 14-09-02 02:55 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> Lennart Poettering, systemd developer, outlines what he (and others in the
> systemd cabal) see as wrong with Linux distros, and what they propose to
> fix it.
>
> They totally miss that packaging has been a solved problem for ages (since
> .deb was invented), and that centralized repositories have existed for over
> a decade (Debian, Ubuntu).
>
> http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html