Re: engineering management practices and systemd (Re: Installing an Alternative Init?)

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote:
> On 14-11-2014 12:26, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> < snip >
>
> > However, you and several others are rejecting systemd on ideological
> > grounds. There's not much that can be done about that, short or
> > re-implementing systemd according to your vision.
>
> I personally reject the design of systemd.
>
> To paraphrase Joel Spolsky :
>
> "As i see it every new feature systemd has is a tradeoff, between the 
> people
> who could really use such a feature and the people who are just
> going to get overwhelmed by all the options. Even if you think that
> the new feature is all good and can't hurt because
> "people who don't care can just ignore it," you're forgetting that
> the people who allegedly don't care are still forced to look at that 
> feature
> and figure out if they need it."

Kind of like Microsoft Word, since v6.

Miles Fidelman


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