Re:Don't panic and keep forking Debian
by digi_owl on Saturday November 29, 2014 @10:16AM
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More correctly, you can't just use networkd as your dhcp client unless you have systemd as init. You could however use dhcpcd on top of systemd (tho the latter would likely make a lot of noise about "missing functionality").
And that is the insidious nature of it all. the *d's panders developer laziness. What do you do when some production critical piece of code demands networkd, logind, or any of the systemd sub-daemons? Do you look to replace it, or do you roll over and replace whatever already functioning init you have with systemd?
> But there are other objections from people who think systemd is too big in scope or too controlling or focussed on one technology or another or... some kind of conspiratorial trap or something (http://boycottsystemd.org). I think these arguments are a little hyperbolic since systemd isn't actually a single monolithic system and is really an overarching project to update a lot of major system utilities.
The problems start when those replacement system utilities become (more or less) tightly coupled, so if you want to change one of them (say, I want to use my own DHCP client) then you need to change all of them (and it's increasingly looking like you can't).