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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: UPower upstream (git master) and 0.99 release
-> No sys-power/pm-utils support anymore
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On 06/03/2014 08:24 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 07:55:50 +0800
> Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> wrote:
[Lots of comments about upower updates and interactions between
systemd and Open-rc...]
I'm sorry, but it seems to me that this is *another* power grab by the
"systemd Cabal."
More and more a small group of developers are making
non-well-thought-out changes to the Linux environment that have the
effect of pushing systemd as the default model for init systems.
First, they abrogated the FHS by putting boot necessary stuff in the
/usr hierarchy (deliberately ignoring the FHS rationale and history)
forcing many users to redo systems to not have separate /usr trees.
Then, they "steal" a general kernel command line parameter (debug) that
makes booting impossible in certain cases. (Linus had to put his foot
down on that one.)
And now, another useful process is forced to make workarounds for users
so that they don't get switched to systemd willy-nilly.
(Don't get me started on the GD linkage between Gnome and systemd!)
As one of the uncredited makers of the SysV init system (I was a lowly
consultant sysadmin during the Unix System IV roll out) I know more of
the history than most. SysV init "punted" the hard problem of getting
sequencing and dependency during startup to the more agile mind of a
human because we didn't have the time to develop a general dependency
solver for the boot sequence. (And someone who was supposed to document
that need for examination in the SysV development cycle seems ti have
neglected the item.)
OpenRC does some logical and straight-forward extensions to the SysV
paradigm and handles the problem well enough. SystemD goes for a total
rewrite (and suffers second system syndrome) and seems to be
masterminded by folks with Napoleonic ideation.
Mind you, I am *not* anti-systemd. In many ways it is a good system that
automates a lot of stuff that needed automation. I just have some
strong disagreements with some of the choices its implementors and
advocates have made in relation to other aspects of system management.
I have thought that Linux and the FOSS movement was about user choice.
Not a small band of folks deciding that "users" shouldn't be expected to
know what their systems are doing under-the-hood and forcing that vision
on everyone, whether they want it or not.
I moved to Gentoo (from a long history with RedHat and then Fedora)
because it seemed to me that the concept of maximum choice was a
treasured and honored position. Recent events, however, seem to indicate
that even here in Gentoo-land there is a power struggle occurring. As
I'm getting to the stage of being a "senior citizen" I probably will not
have to deal with the fallout of this struggle for too long, but it
disheartens me to see it occurring.