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The FAQ of that article is quintessential NIH, which I think summarizes the systemd project well.
by Touche 10y ago
The FAQ of that article is quintessential NIH, which I think summarizes the systemd project well.
- yjftsjthsd-h 10y agoNot just NIH; the condescension and strawmanning are well demonstrated as well. But yes, a wonderful example of the project's attitudes.
- geofft 10y agoCan you explain why you think it's NIH? As someone who's written a lot of code to parse lsb_release (including an installer script that starts with "apt-get install lsb-release", because you can't even depend on lsb-release being installed on Debian/Ubuntu), I certainly agree with just about all of the FAQ in substance, if not in tone.
- yjftsjthsd-h 10y agoBoth LSB and whatever Fedora was doing before were one small patch away from working for their purposes... so they created an entirely new format instead of trying to cooperate with anybody else.
- geofft 10y agoWhat would the small patch look like? As a consumer, the requirements I have are 1. always available, 2. machine-parseable without running a script, and 3. cross-distro (like lsb_release already is). I think any patch that gets you that causes you to end up with /etc/os-release, although possibly under a different name, no?