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Regarding the controversy about systemd etc. |
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The problem isn't that systemd is available, or that there exist a |
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company named Red Had or that there exist a developer named Lennart |
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Poettering that develops programs. |
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The problem is that an ever increasing amount of programs list systemd |
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or some of its libs as a depenancy. So it is getting harder and harder |
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to opt out. |
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The situation is similar to the one with udev and variants. Some |
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programs list udev as a requirement even though there is no requirment |
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on technical grounds. I.e. X, I can run X perfectly without udev, I |
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just have to make my own xorg.conf, or I might want to run X with udev |
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since then it handles multiple keyboards with different layouts |
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automatically. It's like when buying a car, some prefer automats, some |
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stick shift. There are pro and cons for both cases. |
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Sometimes its useful and sometimes its not needed, why should I be more |
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or less forced to use it in every case ? No one is expecting me to run a |
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webserver on every systems, why then the heated arguments about this ? |
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It should be my own decision what to install, not someone elses. |
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Regards, |
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/Karl Hammar |
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