On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 13:37, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > Despite the claims that systemd is > monolithic, it is not. It is an ecosystem comprised of many parts, some > of which can be used without any other systemd components, like > systemd-tmpfiles and systemd-boot, not to mention udev.
Despite repeated claims that it is not, all evidence points to it being very much a monolithic code base, with tight coupling between most of the parts. That you can disable compilation of so many parts that some of the parts appear as stand-alone after compilation is not evidence against that. > Maybe the devs need to rename the systemd-tmpfiles package to satisfy > those that break out in a sweat at the mention of the s-word :) Since the compilation of this package consists of downloading a systemd release, and disabling building of almost everything but this component, it seems to very much be named correctly as it is. Regards, Arve
