On 11.10.16 21:29, Russell Coker wrote:
On Tuesday, 11 October 2016 8:14:29 PM AEDT Erik Christiansen via luv-main wrote:
(Though I'm not sure that systemd's rapacious appetite for monolithic hegemony does a lot more than stultify its own development. In any ecological niche, more agile competitors will tend to gain ascendancy. I look forward to that, and will do what I can to avoid systemd - as I would any unwieldy dinosaur. If that involves avoiding gnome, then that's no loss.)
Did you understand the previous versions of some of the things that systemd replaces like ConsoleKit? Did you avoid them too?
That attempted diversion doesn't fix systemd. As ConsoleKit is no longer supported, it's irrelevant history - a poor diversion from what you're failing to rationally defend. Are you capable of understanding that users can not be bludgeoned into approval of work done "for your own good - so there!", no matter how religiously self-righteous the developers become over its right to replace and fossilise all it can reach? Do you understand that my opposition is not motivated by dislike of DDs or systemd's init performance, but merely by deep-seated opposition to megalomaniacal overreach of whatever colour? The *nix way is for each tool to perform a cohesive set of closely related tasks, not mimic M$, no matter how much that would help corporates monetise Linux. Erik -- (5) It is always possible to agglutinate multiple separate problems into a single complex interdependent solution. In most cases this is a bad idea. RFC-1925