Re: [gentoo-amd64] Boycott Systemd

[Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@chemoelectric.org>]

Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> skribis:
> Diversity isn't about feeding people who feels everything not-invented
> here is godawful. When you have a clearly defined problem and you can
> create a solution that satisfies that niche better than any other
> solutions, that is diversity.

‘Diversity’ here is deviation from established Unix/POSIX philosophy
in system design. Years of effort to simplify programming are being
thrown away on grounds that resemble common arguments in favor of the
‘tight integration’ that is Microsoft Windows. I mean, seriously, many
of the pro-systemd arguments are like those I have heard for using
Windows: that applications ‘just work’, because they were written for
a dominant system.

But I view this like a programmer, not like a Windows user; I want my
software to be portable because it is written portably (in a POSIX
sense), not because it is written for a universally available
particular POSIX variant. What I see is something like a return to the
days when you had to write different code for variants of USG, BSD,
and whatnot, except that now, unlike then, one of the variants is
overwhelmingly dominant.

What I really fear, though, is what if one day the kernel team is a
different entity, more like other entities in the Linux world?