Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …
]] Robert Collins
> On 10 June 2013 07:21, Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org> wrote:
> > Hi Thomas,
> >
> > Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> writes:
> >> In this blog post, you tell that it's possible not to use all the
> >> components of systemd. Then, the immediate question that pops to my
> >> mind: what are *your* intentions then, in Debian (or, said in another
> >> way, what would you like to do if you where the only one to decide)?
> >> Would you like to remove some components, or keep them all by default?
> > I don’t understand the intention behind that question. Could you clarify
> > so that I can give a proper answer please?
>
> I think Thomas is saying that the question of 'systemd for Debian' is
> a specific deployment case; the answer of 'you can choose which
> components of systemd to use' is an abstract answer. What components
> would still be choosable in 'systemd for Debian', not systemd
> generically.
I'd like to align with upstream here (and in general): If upstream says
a component is optional, that's a configuration I'd in general want to
support. If upstream says a component is not optional, well, then I'm
unlikely to go to the effort of making it optional.
I am in general not fond of optional components, they make for more
variations and harder debugging. (There are of course situations where
the tradeoff goes the other way, but everything else being equal, I
prefer a system with fewer parts and fewer optional parts.)
--
Tollef Fog Heen
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