On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Mon 04 Aug 2014 at 18:28:44 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > >> [...] >> 2) Gratuitous interdependency. Part of the Unix Philosophy is that >> programs should "do one thing and do it well." The user assembles a >> functionality from many such small programs. Up to now, init was >> just init. It started the computer, the /dev and /proc stuff, the >> TTY's and the daemons, then pretty much got out of the way. Now here >> comes systemd, requiring or encouraging even desktop environments to >> require or suggest it. > > systemd neither requires nor encourages DEs to use it. It does tempt in > a rather cheeky way, though. So much so that its allure has turned out > to be irresistable to upstream GNOME. Weak-kneeded and impressionable, > the lot of them!
The problem with that truism is that systemd was a present from freedesktop.org, and a significant part of systemd is just undergirding for gnome4. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caar43imfmuyv1gmh67nnd6k5fh3cam96k8aqotdmg+eakei...@mail.gmail.com