3 ms·
> Like packaging any other software, it adds a feature you can choose to install, but it does not affect the distro if you don't enable it. I didn't want syste
by ColanR 7y ago
> Like packaging any other software, it adds a feature you can choose to install, but it does not affect the distro if you don't enable it.
I didn't want systemd, and there wasn't really an option for me to 'disable' it. I switched distros, because that was vastly easier.
> The project generally comes up with good ideas, or at least better ideas than the shared consensus of historical UNIX practice
[citation needed]
- geofft 7y ago> I didn't want systemd I'm talking about this feature that is the subject of the article, not systemd in general. > [citation needed] I'm discussing possible reasons why a distro might choose to trust systemd. Perhaps I should have said, "The distro believes that...." Whether systemd does or does not do this is debatable, but it certainly seems possible, which is the entirety of my claim. (Also, I'm tentatively concluding that this is not the reason why distros are okay with this particular change.)
- ColanR 7y ago> Perhaps I should have said, "The distro believes that...." I think so. As it stands, you are flat out stating that systemd produces better system design than UNIX - which is not only questionable of itself, but in blatant disregard of those who disagree with the systemd design philosophy.
- PlutoIsAPlanet 7y agoDo you even know what UNIX is?
- geofft 7y agoEven if I were making that claim (which is not what that comment said), there's no blatant disregard involved - the claim is not that systemd is good, but that it's better than UNIX, which is truly terrible.