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

Khalid Baheyeldin kb at 2bits.com
Tue Sep 2 19:48:21 EDT 2014


The same people who made an init replacement scope creep into dhcpd, named,
httpd, samba, crond, atd, ntpd, ... are now advocating a file system as the
basis for managing packages ...

Why am I not surprised?


On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:39 PM, unsolicited <unsolicited at swiz.ca> wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>
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