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On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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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. |
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This last part is important; if you don't like systemd, bitching about |
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it will do nothing: you have to use and contribute to the |
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alternatives. Linux (and Gentoo) are about choice, as long as there is |
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someone willing and able to provide that choice; no one will |
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(necessarily) provide that choice for you out of nothing. |
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Also, I would use better arguments than those stated in the posted |
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link: several of them are inaccurate, or even straight lies: in |
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particular to the mentioned point 7, it is false that GNOME has |
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adopted systemd as a hard dependency. That's just not true: GNOME 3 |
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runs in {Open,Free}BSD just fine. |
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GNOME supports both systemd (logind, actually) *AND* ConsoleKit as |
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backends[2], so if you hear or read someone saying that GNOME depends |
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on systemd, that person is either spreading FUD, or showing her |
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ignorance. |
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Regards. |
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[1] http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140219085851 |
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[2] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-session/tree/configure.ac#n139 |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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