Bug#727708: bystander note about systemd role
Side note from bystander: in this, fascinating thread I mention one,
small thing: systemd is disputed here only as primary init system.
But systemd is on fast track to evolving into something bigger and
larger than process supervisor - something like universal platform
for LinuxOS, like - I don't know how properly describe it with one
word - maybe like Android? It is not my personal impression, it was
articulated - for example - by Lennart Poetering, as cited in [1]:
...
Note that systemd is not an init system (since quite a while), it's
a basic set of userspace tools to build an OS from. And hell yes, sane
IPC is something we believe should be at the core of every OS, and hence
it needs to be at the core of what systemd does.
...
Also, at this moment, Debian still claims that "we are trying to
produce, amongst other things, a free Unix"[2], but some of devs
involved into systemd or kdbus development and many supporters
seconded opinion that "unix philosophy is dead" as - for example
- in following thread and mentioned LWN comments[3].
>From my, humble POV, in this thread TC should also dispute about
general direction for Debian project - because systemd brings more
changes to whole system than - simply - "removing /etc/init.d and
/etc/inittab in favour of new init system alternatives".
1 - https://plus.google.com/117255203942825212306/posts/ZpW1Pa2TWin
2 - http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/footnotes.html
3 - https://plus.google.com/111049168280159033135/posts/2nnvNVmAPRV
Just my two cents,
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Piotr 'aniou' Meyer
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