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It matters because if it "invades" your distribution of choice. Imagine you've been useing a distro for years and grown to love it and now systemd is being forc
by hobofan 12y ago
It matters because if it "invades" your distribution of choice. Imagine you've been useing a distro for years and grown to love it and now systemd is being forced upon you of you make the next major upgrade.
Right now it isn't really that bleak, because some distros still give you a choice, but people are worried that the choice will be sacrificed in favor of easier maintanability in the future.
- danieldk 12y agoIt matters because if it "invades" your distribution of choice. Imagine you've been useing a distro for years and grown to love it and now systemd is being forced upon you of you make the next major upgrade. Like ELF, glibc2, egcs, devfs, hotplug (the old script-flavored version), udev, eglibc, etc. I am mentioning these, because all of them caused a controversy with a vocal minority. It is evolution. None of these are controversial anymore. Some of them were replaced, because they were bad ideas in hindsight (devfs). By definition any fundamental part of the system (such as init or the C library) that changes is 'forced upon' the user.
- na85 12y agoYour quotes around 'forced upon' make it seem like it is not really being forced onto users. Gnome users for example are getting shafted now that systemd is a dependency for the gnome DE.
- dnlrn 12y agohttp://www.islinuxaboutchoice.com/ http://www.islinuxaboutchoice.com/
- kasabali 12y agoThanks for sharing your deep insights.