Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

Wed Oct 22 02:11:24 UTC 2014

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 09:40:30AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:44:57 +0900, Randy Bush said:
>>> systemd is insanity.  one would have hoped that deb and others would
>>> know better.  sigh.
>> It started as a replacement init system.  I suspected it had jumped
>> the shark when it sprouted an entirely new DHCP and NTP service.  And this
>> was confirmed when I saw this:
>>
>> "Leading up to this has been cursor rendering support, keyboard mapping
>> support, screen renderer, DRM back-end, input interface, and dozens of other
>> commits."
>>
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgwNzQ
>>
>> When your init system is worrying about cursor rendering, you have truly
>> fallen victim to severe feature bloat.  I guess Jamie Zawinski was right:
>> "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail."
So which comes first:
- systemd-emacs
or
- emacs-systemd-mode
? :-)

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