Re: Distros specifically designed for children

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 31 May 2025 07:25:53 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

>
systemd had extensive backward compatibility with sysvinit scripts
right from the beginning. Otherwise nobody would have bothered with
a transition that would have been more painful than it needed to
be.

 
And here comes that attitude that I'd like to complain about in the
systemd makers: They're planning to rip the init script compatibility
layer out.

>
Yeah, I heard about that. Like anything in Open Source, who is going to
maintain it?

init script compatibility is little more than a generator. It's easy
to maintain inside the systemd sources, it's way harder to maintain if
one has to maintain a build system, a package, dependencies etc around
the ripped out code that all is unnecessary if it were still part of
the package.

Nobody wants to do unnecessary work without reward.

Writing widely used software comes with responsibility. Part of that
responsibility is that you get to work on parts of the software that
you don't use yourself instead of expecting that everybody is going to
accept your way. It is an attitude to dismiss other people's valid
opinions like that.

Greetings
Marc
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