poitr pogo <[email protected]> writes: > On 2/25/16, Rainer Weikusat <[email protected]> wrote: > (...) >> Considering that shared objects and dynamic linking were originally a >> MULTICS feature (dating back to about 1965) and introduced to UNIX(*) >> with SunOS 4.0 in 1988, the best course of action to deal with people >> who are so afraid of changes that they keep rejecting "useful new >> features" for 51/ 28 years in a row is "roundly ignore them". Especially >> if they claim to be 'modernizers' because the ancient technology they're >> so wedded to is so seriously ancient that large groups of people >> meanwhile forgot about that ... > > Is this some kind of pro systemd propaganda ? :D
I've purposely used the phrase to highlight that a large part of systemd is really not 'modern' at all but about bringing back seriously ancient stuff certain 'usual suspects', in particular, Microsoft/ Windows never parted with. Eg, in this case, the idea that all code making up an application has to be under the exclusive control of the guy who designed the logo (intentional hyperbole) because all this 'code' is seriously scary stuff and one better doesn't take any risks with that, especially if this mean 'users' could change something (they're surely not supposed to !!, eg, fix bugs in libraries). After all, diskspace is not only cheap nowadays but paid for by someone else and that someone else can surely by for decreased developer uneasiness by having 150 broken copies of everything installed on his machine. Conveniently, any security problems caused by that will also only affect 'users'. Heads, developer wins, tails, user loses. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
