On 02/04/2014 08:23 PM, Armin K. wrote:
> On 02/04/2014 08:19 PM, Igor Živković wrote:
>> On 02/04/2014 08:03 PM, Armin K. wrote:
>>>
>>> "Now, in Unix system design, it is a generally understood principle that
>>> a big task not be handled by a big program, but rather a collection of
>>> small programs, each tackling one specific, well-defined component of
>>> the larger task. You often hear the phrase “do one thing, and do it
>>> well” as a guiding principle for writing a Unix program."
>>>
>>> While this was true long time ago, today it might not be. Especially for
>>> consumer programs.
>>
>> This is probably the reason for systemd animosity. Consumers can have
>> GNOME, systemd, PulseAudio and such, just don't take away the option not
>> to use it from the rest of us.
>>
>
> While I do fully agree with you, I do think that developers today
> support the "common use case". It's up to community to support anything
> else. Freedom of choice has two sides: User choice and developer choice
> and there's nothing that can really be done about that but complain or
> fix it yourself in a way that doesn't break the "official" setup.

Absolutely. The way it's done in LFS project at the moment satisfies 
both sides I think, as long as there is interest to maintain it.

-- 
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in a single unified look, and glued together so it doesn't come apart." 
-- Iranon
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