Systemd, ten years later: a historical and technical retrospective

Re:Systemd, ten years later: a historical and technical retr... by Spivak on Monday May 04, 2020 @08:59AM (#23067451)

I mean the parent was talking about the source code being a ball of mud and it being difficult to determine what components can be removed without breaking things.

In this case it should be assumed we’re talking about someone who’s compiling systemd and familiar with the source. And yes, these are flags that anyone who builds systemd from source would be familiar with and know how to set.

It’s the same as when you run a configure script and pass —-disable-feature.

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Re:Systemd, ten years later: a historical and technical retr... by JoeAltmaier on Monday May 04, 2020 @09:05AM (#23067509)

So common with open source - flags that once worked are now tangled up with subsequent code/flags and won't even compile if not part of some common configuration. Because its not fun to exhaustively test all combinations, it doesn't get done.

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