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[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 36 points 8 months ago

It's that it also decided to take over log management, event management, networking, DNS resolution, etc, etc.

If it were just an init system that would be perfectly portable. People were able to write software that way with sysv for years.

It's that in order to do certain low level tasks on a systemd system, you need to integrate with systemd, not just "be started by it". Now if a distro wants that piece of software, it needs to use systemd, and other pieces of software that want to be on that distro need to implement integration with systemd.

A dependency isn't infectious, but a dependency you can't easily swap out is, particularly if it's positioned near the base of a dependency tree.

Almost all of my software can run on x86 or arm without any issues beyond changing compiler targets. It's closer to how it's tricky to port software between Mac and Linux, or Linux and BSD. Targeting one platform entails significant, potentially prohibitive, effort to support another, despite them all being ostensibly compatible unix like systems.

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

log management, event management, networking, DNS resolution

and this is a bad thing? the distro can choose to not use it, but because every systemd distro uses it, it's a 1000x easier to implement it without needing to put a fuck tons of if-else's for every distro

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago

No, not everyone thinks it's a bad thing. It is, however, infectious, which is a reason some people don't like it.

Knowing why people dislike something isn't the same as thinking it's the worst thing ever, and liking something doesn't mean you can't acknowledge it's defects.

I think it's a net benefit, but that it would be better if they had limited the scope of the project a bit, rather than trying to put everything in the unit system.

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca -4 points 8 months ago

and what's the problem?, it's not like everything is in the same binary or it's a monstrosity that can't be used without using every single feature, it's a project that just has different programs under the same project name, because no one wanted todo theoe programs

[-] radiant_bloom@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

That’s why I personally try very hard to only rely on POSIX stuff, even when it’s massively inconvenient. The only thing I haven’t gotten around to replacing yet is GNU make.

[-] nick@midwest.social -4 points 8 months ago

Bro I’m with you on this but the systemd bots will just keep arguing with and downvoting you. Don’t bother.

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