On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 13:22:28 -0500 Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > As a professional programmer, I completely disagree with any dogma > based on "philosophy" rather than technical merits. > > "So I think many of the "original ideals" of UNIX are these days more > of a mindset issue than necessarily reflecting reality of the > situation. > That's not the issue here at all. The issue is the possible hegemony being imposed by systemd. Whether or not this is true this issue at least deserves some attention. Regarding the "Unix philosophy," I doubt that anyone still considers that a "pipeline of simple tools" is the ideal approach. Software has assumed gigantic proportions (to match hardware capabilities) of late and that traditional Unix model certainly would never fit. But not all software is gigantic. I would venture a guess that a large majority of programs are simple one-off concoctions designed to meet some simple individual need. In these cases it sure is nice to have the standard Unix tools available. I use them frequently for various simple purposes. Regarding the booting and configuring of a Linux system, the job can be either very complex or very simple. For the simple case, is there technical merit in having to use systemd? I would claim that there is not. For complex scenarios, by all means utilize systemd. But let's keep the appropriate tools available for the appropriate job.
