I kinda like how a good chunk of the community complains we are "too monolithic", and the other side of the community complains we have "too many binaries". We can't win with you guys, can we?
Lennart
Lennart
If I’m writing a piece of code and I start wanting to rewrite the world around it, that’s a sign that I’m probably doing the wrong thing.
In the case of systemd, you actually have a decent case that a lot of things in Linux and the rest of the POSIX world could stand to be improved. A good, clean, portable, systems-focused approach could tackle all those things head on.
> We can't win
Juxtaposing two unrelated issues usually isn't a winning strategy.
It's that the plethora of binaries are too tightly coupled and are not at all modular or interchangeable, which is materially the same as being a monolith.
I think you are smart enough to know this, and are just feigning ignorance.
Sure I have to learn new things, sometimes stuff breaks, but that has always been the case. For me most problems were with upgrading Linux distributions.
Anyhow it's great to have less distribution specific stuff and less shell scripts. Thank you and all the other systemd devs.