Dylan Cali wrote:
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
We tried that about 6 months ago and gave up. systemd is a cancer that
infiltrates everything.
Systemd is not a part of the Linux Standards Base. System V is.
Note that systemd is much more complex than System V. sysvinit is about 10K
lines of code. The user has complete control. The LFS instantiation has
about 2K lines of bash scripts to support it.
systemd is, the last time I looked, about 150K lines of code, requires
packages like dbus that are not needed on most servers, and does not allow
the user to remove unneeded facilities. Many people call that bloat.
I have to say, it is so refreshing to hear this from a distro
maintainer (even if LFS is only "kind of" a distro). For the life of
me, I cannot understand why all the major distros have jumped on the
systemd band wagon.
The other day I was trying to understand how updatedb was scheduled to
run on my Arch install, as there was no entry in cron. It turns out
it's "scheduled" via systemd: "When mlocate is installed, a script is
automatically scheduled to run daily via systemd" [1]. Really?
Systemd is also a cron replacement too now?
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/locate
and a dhcp client and a login client and a syslog client ...
You can disable them or ignore them, but you can't remove them if you
are using systemd for other things.
-- Bruce
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