On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> 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 -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
