Re: The Tragedy Of systemd

On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 20:45:37 -0400, Phillip Frabott wrote:

A lot of times the anti-systemd crowd say that Systemd violates the Unix
philosophy.

    “There’s a lot of suggestions that it violates the Unix
    philosophy, which I usually take to mean that you want to write
    software that does one thing and does it well and then connect it
    to other things. systemd as a project contains a lot of things.
    systemd as a daemon is a thing that reacts to events and starts
    things and does it very well. And so you could claim that it does
    not actually violate the unix philosophy. You could claim that
    there’s a bit of violation in that it’s bringing all of this extra
    functionality into the project; but I think for BSD projects to
    criticize another project for bringing a bunch of
    tangentially-linked software into one repository to manage it
    collectively ... that’s a bit rich.”
        -- Benno Rice, “The Tragedy Of systemd”