On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 09:40:30AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:44:57 +0900, Randy Bush said:
systemd is insanity. one would have hoped that deb and others would know better. sigh.
It started as a replacement init system. I suspected it had jumped the shark when it sprouted an entirely new DHCP and NTP service. And this was confirmed when I saw this:
"Leading up to this has been cursor rendering support, keyboard mapping support, screen renderer, DRM back-end, input interface, and dozens of other commits."
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgwNzQ
When your init system is worrying about cursor rendering, you have truly fallen victim to severe feature bloat. I guess Jamie Zawinski was right: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail."
Ooooh... /me submits a patch to systemd to provide localhost:25 and //usr/sbin/sendmail emulation... - Matt -- The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. -- Dorothy Nevill