ouch, I hadn't seen the updates, or followed along, thanks for the heads up. I fought many years by hopping distros to keep init.d as my initialization environ

ouch, I hadn't seen the updates, or followed along, thanks for the heads up. I fought many years by hopping distros to keep init.d as my initialization environment. Eventually I gave up and accepted systemd on Debian, my otherwise preferred distro. Maybe it's time I go back to some frankenstein'ed Gentoo build or some other obscure distro. This isn't any sort of "threat", we're not "customers" leaving money on the table or anything. But the permeation of LLVM into being a hard dependency to have an up to date FOSS system feels against part of the spirit of the movement. At least if I become part of some botnet or scanner getting distro popularity metrics my vote will be counted the way I like. I say this as someone who likes what LLVM has done, and appreciate having more compiler options. It feels somewhat wrong that we're putting so much weight on it though, its off putting we're now leveraging these languages that have only a single implementation. It's hard to describe because it's not inherently against anything FOSS or POSIX philosophy, but whereas one could make a mediocre C compiler in ASM in a few weeks effort, I don't think I can do the same with Rust, Go, or any other modern full featured language. Perhaps it's just me becoming increasingly the curmudengous old man that fits the stereotypes. I don't really mind Rust, or Go, but I don't really use them either. I learned on C++ but later found I really appreciated the simplicity of C. Maybe I'll just finally start putting in real effort to contribute in the areas I care about.