[ale] systemd or not

[Lightner, Jeff]

RHEL7 also uses systemd.

>From everything I've seen systemd is the way the Linux world has been going for a while now so fighting it is a losing battle.




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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of James Sumners
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 8:31 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] systemd or not

I stopped using Arch Linux because they forced systemd on us (me). I'm thoroughly disappointed that the next release of Debian is also forcing a move to it. But, really, they don't have an option:

"In November 2012, the GNOME Project concluded that basic GNOME functionality should not rely on systemd.[16] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#cite_note-16> However, in contradiction of this statement, GNOME 3.8 introduced a *de facto* dependency on systemd by introducing session management behaviors which depend on how systemd operates. While the developers of Gentoo Linux <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Linux>attempted to adapt these changes in OpenRC <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRC>, the implementation contained too many bugs, causing the distribution to mark systemd as a dependency of GNOME." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#GNOME_integration

So, a distribution either _doesn't_ include GNOME (no loss in my opinion, but people do like it), or it includes GNOME at the cost of also having to include systemd.

What it comes down to is the developers of systemd. This package is brought to you by the same person who gave us the wonderfully useless and awful Pulse Audio system. And his cohorts routinely draw the ire of others:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/2/420
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935 (whole thing is worth reading for much enlightenment)

So, we have a project run by people who like to force their software onto others by getting it included as a non-optional dependency who then go on to not give a damn about what their bugs break or whom they affect. Now, they want to take over the whole damn system -- http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html

I agree with the "systemd is a trojan" statement. I very much agree with it.


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