On Saturday 21 January 2012 17:40, Laurent Bercot wrote: > >> I have no problem with anyone building something. I have a problem > >> when someone forces this "something" on me. > > Pitty you feel that way. A NAK (and ignoring further requests) should be > > sufficient. Any "lobbying" going on in the background? > > FWIW, Denys is not the only one disliking systemd. I also fully support > the eradication of systemd from the surface of the planet, and we are a > small group of users feeling the same way. > > There are good, technical reasons for this. From an engineering > standpoint, the design of systemd makes an unacceptable amount of > newbie mistakes; it looks like it has been designed by an average > undergraduate student. The fact that the systemd people spend so > much time lobbying for it, and managed to get it integrated into > mainstream GNU/Linux distributions is just scary, and reminds me > of Microsoft practices. > Instead of spending so much energy promoting systemd, they should > spend more energy studying software engineering and researching the > state of the art in init systems, and produce better software. > > ( This criticism is also valid for *any* software produced by > freedesktop.org, by the way. If you have never looked into the > entrails of D-Bus, well, don't. Save it for the day when you have > swallowed poison and really need to puke. ) > > For a small comparison of existing init systems, see: > http://www.skarnet.org/software/s6/why.html
BTW, do you want s6 to be in busybox? -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
