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Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian



 Hi.

On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 09:12:38 +0900
Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> wrote:

> I will acknowledge that there are some things that we could do to
> improve the current (sysv) init in debian.
> 
> * Get rid of run levels.

And the reason for this change is? Runlevels are good where they are,
even if you don't use them.


> systemd, cgroups, and dbus are a package. Not so much in the sense of
> a debian package, rather in the sense of three components of a
> social-engineering project. Get one in, and it needs the other, so of
> course it has to come in, and then you have a functional group that
> require each other and are each others' excuses. And they give the
> impression of momentum, so busy project leaders think they can depend
> on them.

You're wrong here. Cgroups are just glorified Linux-specific shell
limits. There's nothing in them that requires usage of s*stemd or dbus.

Reco


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