* On 2014 21 Sep 06:52 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
The issue of the day (week) on debian-devel seems to be systemd-shim --
which kind of has to work for anyone to use an alternate init system; but
seems NOT to work (or at least lag behind).
When systemd-shim is forced to chase the taillights of systemd, it is
doomed to always lag behind. As the authors of systemd have apparently
opted not to constrain themselves to a stable/published API or limit the
scope of their project, systemd-shim will always be in catch up mode.
I am most concerned about the systemd project's intention to subsume
many other projects rather than simply be a cooperative member of the
vast Free Software ecosystem. It seems to me that this is the source of
much of the angst presented here and elsewhere. To me this is a
troubling attitude that overshadows whatever technical improvement
systemd sought to bring to the Free desktop. The angst is a natural
reaction to this sort of invasive attitude in what has been mostly a
very cooperative community for the previous 18 years that I have been
working with and using Free Software. Unfortunately, this attitude and
its product have become a large enough presence that they're no longer
just a routing problem.