On 2014-10-23 9:15, Matt Palmer wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:05:30PM -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: >> To achieve the level of integration that timedated has with the rest >> of systemd would require more than just putting code into timedatectl >> to write out /etc/ntpd.conf and starting a service. timedated talks >> to networkd (that >> DHCP server that everyone is hating on as well) in real-time to >> determine the state of the network and to get any NTP servers that >> were sent in DHCP packets. To do that for chronyd or ntpd in the same >> way would require code changes and the systemd developers didn't want >> to do the work, > > This is the core problem with systemd, in my mind -- and what has gotten > Linus, amongst other people, so thoroughly cheesed off with the systemd > devs. They don't play well with other children. They don't appear > particularly interested in reusing any existing code, because it's a lot > more fun to write new code. I'm a strong proponent of Joel Spolsky's views > on rewrites (sorry, no URL, I'm on the train) and I don't doubt that all the
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html > same problems will come to haunt systemd on its way from being the new kid > on the block to being legacy code[1]. > > - Matt > > [1] A computer industry term which means, "it works". > >
