Re: End of hypocrisy ?
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon 04 Aug 2014 at 18:28:44 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> 2) Gratuitous interdependency. Part of the Unix Philosophy is that
>> programs should "do one thing and do it well." The user assembles a
>> functionality from many such small programs. Up to now, init was
>> just init. It started the computer, the /dev and /proc stuff, the
>> TTY's and the daemons, then pretty much got out of the way. Now here
>> comes systemd, requiring or encouraging even desktop environments to
>> require or suggest it.
>
> systemd neither requires nor encourages DEs to use it. It does tempt in
> a rather cheeky way, though. So much so that its allure has turned out
> to be irresistable to upstream GNOME. Weak-kneeded and impressionable,
> the lot of them!
The problem with that truism is that systemd was a present from
freedesktop.org, and a significant part of systemd is just
undergirding for gnome4.
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Joel Rees
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Look first in your own heart.
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