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On 12/20/2016 9:33 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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>> systemd is primarily a political project, not a technical one. |
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> What political benefit do I gain from using and maintaining systemd? |
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Interesting that you snipped the rest of his comment - or more his main |
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point - that followed. |
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How about commenting on the most important point he made: |
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On 12/20/2016 5:51 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> ... [systemd's] object is clearly to turn GNU/Linux into a tightly |
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> bound vertical stack where only Red Hat's views on what is good will |
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> prevail. Our freedom to chose which core packages to run is being |
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> steadily encroached upon, and pretty soon we will have no choice at |
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> all. |
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> Already, as discussed in this thread, pulseaudio has become a hard |
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> dependency of Firefox on G/L, and pulseaudio is controlled by the |
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> politicians. The next step will be to make systemd a hard dependency |
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> of pulseaudio (it will happen, just as it happened for udev and |
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> gnome), at which point the "happy" people running openrc will not be |
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> able to run Firefox. Happy indeed. |
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This, to me, is the single most important problem with systemd, but I'm |
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not sure that enough people who are in a position to be able to do |
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anything about it care about or are really fully aware of it. |
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