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Re:Debian Dropping the Linux Standard Base by _delirium on Thursday October 08, 2015 @09:16PM (#10357527)
> not in-line with the unix philosophy of 'do one thing and do it well'

I'm not sure how you could, with a straight face, claim that sysvinit fits this description. It does many things, none of them particularly well.

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Re:Debian Dropping the Linux Standard Base by na85 on Thursday October 08, 2015 @09:35PM (#10357594)
Replacing a bad system (sysvinit) with another bad system (systemd) is just change for change's sake.
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Re:Debian Dropping the Linux Standard Base by throwaway2048 on Thursday October 08, 2015 @09:47PM (#10357644)
ah yes, the old "everything must be perfect before we are allowed to change anything" scree.

The only thing this accomplishes is ensuring no progress is made, ever.

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Re:Debian Dropping the Linux Standard Base by vezzy-fnord on Thursday October 08, 2015 @09:48PM (#10357651)
Well, in fairness, systemd isn't really a matter of changing sysvinit. It's changing the entire low-level userspace, so there's a lot more one can object to, in principle.
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