From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D283C1382C5 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 2020 13:01:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D8A7E09A6; Sun, 6 Dec 2020 13:01:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CAB0FE0968 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 2020 13:01:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host86-149-69-253.range86-149.btcentralplus.com ([86.149.69.253] helo=[192.168.1.65]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1kltfY-00081G-4U for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 13:01:40 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <2179606.ElGaqSPkdT@lenovo.localdomain> <20201206123718.07e5689a@digimed.co.uk> From: antlists Message-ID: <82ee800e-811f-32a5-6e9e-fd973761cd42@youngman.org.uk> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 13:01:40 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a9ac5577-0383-4bd5-ba6d-5892fbe49c2a X-Archives-Hash: bf0bf4aebffc4393fdf975e2f5a59a90 On 06/12/2020 12:54, Rich Freeman wrote: > I think the idea of having something more cross-platform is a good > one, though there is nothing really about systemd that isn't "open" - > it is FOSS. It just prioritizes using linux syscalls where they are > useful over implementing things in a way that work on other kernels, > which is more of a design choice than anything else. I mean, it is no > more wrong to use linux-specific syscalls than for the linux > developers to create them in the first place. After all, it's not as if SysVinit is portable ... hint - it ISN'T. Nobody uses it but linux distros stuck in the past. Cheers, Wol