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Distros mostly made the switch because, 1 Redhat pushed systemd into Rhel7 2 Crucial system parts were pr'd into hard dependencies on systemd 3 It's base idea
by fsniper 12y ago
Distros mostly made the switch because,
1 Redhat pushed systemd into Rhel7
2 Crucial system parts were pr'd into hard dependencies on systemd
3 It's base idea and vision which is currently replaced with broader ones was good evolution. (better init system with woos)
4 technically most of these woos are only implemented with it
I am not trying to say systemd does not have it's merits. It has. It is trying hard to bring what it promises on the table. Unfortunately these promises mostly comes with traps like vendor lock-in and forced technicalities on other software like kernel.
It tries to be everything in a single pack with no space for other contenders.
These may be thought as well refuted ideas But I believe systemd cabal has the ability to refute with half assed realities. Like "It is not monolitic. it is modular." Reality it has compile time modularity like it is 70's.Also people report that modularity is oversold.
- legulere 12y agoRHEL actually was one of the later distros to adopt systemd, so that line of reasoning doesn't make much sense. > Crucial system parts were pr'd into hard dependencies on systemd Can you tell which crucial system parts you mean? The thing with udev was that it's hard/impossible to build without systemd, however there is no dependency on it. The other thing that is brought up in this context is gnome 3, but that was already covered in the interview.
- fsniper 12y agoGnome and logind is a crucial one. Also it brings it's pam dependency. It is a show stopper for slackware. Kdbus and udev is and will be other parts in this category.