Re:Awesome-Linux-Minimalism
by ahartmetz on Saturday March 30, 2024 @09:35AM
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A DNS resolver, NTP client and boot loader as part of the init system does seem to be a bad idea, no?
All of them are worse than what they are replacing - more limited and more buggy. Sometimes because they are just new, sometimes because the authors don't know what they are doing. In any case, why switch?
Regarding "part of", there's a nice motte and bailey argument from systemd that they are absolutely not parts of it when talking to critics, but when it comes to shipping and using them, they are.
It was especially bad when udev "moved in with" systemd, there were promises to keep it working without systemd. These were swiftly broken. Assuming good faith from that crowd is a mistake.
Fortunately, there is a fork of udev that works without systemd, and you know what, it's not even a difficult one. So what were the strong technical reasons for adding the dependency?
All of them are worse than what they are replacing - more limited and more buggy. Sometimes because they are just new, sometimes because the authors don't know what they are doing. In any case, why switch?
Regarding "part of", there's a nice motte and bailey argument from systemd that they are absolutely not parts of it when talking to critics, but when it comes to shipping and using them, they are.
It was especially bad when udev "moved in with" systemd, there were promises to keep it working without systemd. These were swiftly broken. Assuming good faith from that crowd is a mistake.
Fortunately, there is a fork of udev that works without systemd, and you know what, it's not even a difficult one. So what were the strong technical reasons for adding the dependency?