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It's very fair to eschew change for negligible improvements. But I've also seen the community defend terrible stuff just because. Look at what happened with t
by paulddraper 3y ago
It's very fair to eschew change for negligible improvements.
But I've also seen the community defend terrible stuff just because.
Look at what happened with the init system. System V, fstab, etc was awful. Doing anything with a reasonable level of robustness was grotesquely obtuse and complicated. And yet it was "perfectly fine" to the greybeards. Alternative proposals were near zero.
I don't have a dog in the networkmanager/netplan fight. It could be that one is irrelevant; given history, I have a hard time trusting what I hear.
sudo has quirks for sure (which is why you see a number of alternatives).
- chuckadams 3y agoDaemontools was pretty popular with greybeards, actually. But yeah, daemontools/runit/s6 and company have always been for handcrafted server setups, where the thing about init scripts and unit files is that they're a standard thing a package can supply and have work out of the box with minimal tweaking across distros. Any serious challenge to systemd nowadays is probably going to have to at least offer compatibility with it. No one is going to rip it all out and start over again (again).