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So aim your ire at the distributions who (I agree) cocked this one up. "Take a library dependency to implement basic functionality" is not a systemd mentality,

by growse 2y ago

So aim your ire at the distributions who (I agree) cocked this one up. "Take a library dependency to implement basic functionality" is not a systemd mentality, it's pernicious throughout software development - see leftPad as another example.

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immibis 2y ago
"Put everything in one big ball" is systemd mentality AND something that enabled the xz exploit to work.
- growse 2y ago
  Lots of things enabled the xz exploit to work. If the lesson you take from xz is "systemd bad" then you've really missed the wood for the trees.
  - immibis 2y ago
    It's one of many things to consider. Think of it as sandboxing, or attack surface reduction. Should we expose everything to everything else, or should it be on a need-to-know basis?