On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:10:18AM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > I'm not claiming it is not extremely popular; many of its intuitive > features render it more attractive to a general user-base, however > from a computer science perspective, it is an absolutely travesty of > modern software-engineering and a blatant violation of many > long-standing principles to which Linux application-developers > usually adhere.
It's a "small base system", not init. > The overall goal of systemd is rather admirable, but they should have, > from the very beginning, created modular components and linked > them with a general interface rather than sticking everything > together in a monolithic mess. So from "people generally prefer to keep a safe distance" we instantly jump to "some folks don't like the design"? That was quick :D
