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Re:Systemd 250 Released by IshKebab on Saturday December 25, 2021 @05:49PM (#29687765)
> There are multiple libc implementations

You could make another SystemD implementation if you really wanted. The point is that there are plenty of APIs - even ones with a single implementation - that nobody bats an eye about programs having a "hard dependency" on, but suddenly for SystemD it's apparently a big issue?

It's bullshit technical excuses to hide the real reasons people object to SystemD, which are more embarrassing.

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Re:Systemd 250 Released by lmm on Sunday December 26, 2021 @07:15AM (#29691795)
> You could make another SystemD implementation if you really wanted.

No you can't, because they don't offer stable interfaces as a matter of deliberate policy.

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Re:Systemd 250 Released by IshKebab on Sunday December 26, 2021 @01:02PM (#29694698)
That seems to be completely untrue: https://systemd.io/PORTABILITY_AND_STABILITY/
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Re:Systemd 250 Released by lmm on Sunday December 26, 2021 @08:35PM (#29698120)
That's changed then, now that the competition has been killed off; at the time certainly logind and the cgroup integration had no stable interface.
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