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> Why do you think this is an attempt at a persuasion tactic Because they said so: > As part of that we sometimes adopt schemes that were previously used by o
by kasabali 1y ago
> Why do you think this is an attempt at a persuasion tactic
Because they said so:
> As part of that we sometimes adopt schemes that were previously used by only one of the distributions and push it to a level where it's the default of systemd, trying to gently push everybody towards the same set of basic configuration [1]
1. https://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html https://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html
- creatonez 1y agoThis was written 11 years before that debug log was added. Extremely loose connection. Things do actually change over the course of 11 years, believe it or not.
- kasabali 1y agoIt's their modus operandi and it haven't changed, believe or not. > it is definitely our intention to gently push the distributions in the same direction so that they stop supporting deviating solutions for these things where there's really no point at all in doing so. [1] > Distros may deviate from this by patching this downstream, but by shipping this as secure default I do hope to gently push everybody in the same direction. > start pushing people gently to define GPT partition type UUIDs for missing archs > Let's generate a single gcc `#warning` message asking people to define partition type UUIDs for their architectures if they are missing. [3] [1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2010-September/000391.html https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2010-Se... [2] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-March/001823.html https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-Ma... [3] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/d42e4fa258701ff5e094a39149f6cef327adcf52 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/d42e4fa258701ff5e0...