Chris Petrillipetrillic@hachyderm.io
May 23, 2026, 3:12 AMthis is not to say there's no good ideas in systemd, but it's just become such a sprawling monstrosity at this point that it's hard to take it seriously as a piece of "engineering".
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Glyphglyph@mastodon.socialMay 23, 2026, 3:27 AM@petrillic I have always been a systemd defender but it gets harder every day
- Chris Petrillipetrillic@hachyderm.ioMay 23, 2026, 3:31 AM
Krzysztof Sakrejdawronglang@bayes.clubMay 23, 2026, 10:00 AM@glyph @petrillic yeah it's getting to the point I'd like to pick some pieces and leave others.
May 23, 2026, 3:54 AM@petrillic do you want Solaris SMF? Because that’s how you’ll get Solaris SMF
- May 23, 2026, 4:06 AM
@petrillic “let’s write our service manifests in XML and strictly enforce the DTD” - statements of the utterly deranged who designed SMF
May 23, 2026, 12:11 PM@jpm @petrillic And yet, by not strictly enforcing anything systemd still manages to make matters worse.
Michael T Babcockmikebabcock@floss.socialMay 23, 2026, 10:57 PM@petrillic can we please jettison all the bits that aren't managing services into a completely different set of packages? Please?