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> when systemd is so many things Because it was originally advertized as an optional init replacement. The acrimonious debates were because a number of people
by eleitl 7y ago
> when systemd is so many things
Because it was originally advertized as an optional init replacement. The acrimonious debates were because a number of people did not believe that's all is going to be, given the history of its designers.
Of course, nowadays many people would flat-out deny that systemd was sold as an init replacement, and claim that what you see was the original intention all along.
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- bkor 7y agoAt the time of the Debian debate around systemd it was already very clear that systemd was not just an init system. The systemd website at that time already mentioned it to be "basic building block for Linux". People just pretending it is or only should be an init system was one of the annoying things about the discussion; people only compared the init system part of things and ignored that systemd offered more to developers. Any additional functionality was "not to be used" or "developers should offer alternatives". That wasn't very realistic then and now.