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For any who need opposing information on systemd, check out the |
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following web page: |
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http://boycottsystemd.org |
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This page was referenced on Slashdot recently and contains |
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a good overview of the undesirability of systemd. Of course, |
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Gentoo is mentioned as one of the few remaining distributions |
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that still offer a choice. |
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For me, point #7 is particularly odious: |
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"7. systemd is viral by its very nature. Its scope in functionality |
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and creeping in as a dependency to lots of packages means that distro |
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maintainers will have to necessitate a conversion, or suffer a drift. |
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As an example, the GNOME environment has adopted systemd as a hard |
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dependency..." |
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I do not oppose systemd. In fact, I'd rather not care about it in the least. |
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But I want to be able to implement the boot process and system configuration |
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in my own way and it seems that systemd will threaten that in the future. |
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Take particular note of the end section "What You Can Do." There |
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are plenty of alternatives and such an array of choices is what |
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has always made Linux highly interesting, attractive, and useful. |
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We all need to insist on keeping it this way. |