[Nix-dev] Is systemd a benefit or a liability?

[Luca Bruno]

That would be over-engineering instead. Your event system would have to
talk with the init system with some IPC. So no, it shouldn't be
externalized.

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Alexander Zubkov <green at msu.ru> wrote:

> Sorry, copy-pasted the wrong link:
> http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/
>
> On 10/19/2014 02:42 PM, Luca Bruno wrote:
>
>> My reason for using systemd compared to nosh, uselessd, sysvinit, openrc
>> or
>> whatelse is that it's integrated with the event system (udev). That is the
>> real advantage of systemd and you should think more about this kind of
>> advantage.
>>
>> My reason to hate systemd is that it has other components that have been
>> moved into system without a strong rationale. All of those components
>> could
>> have been externalized in some way instead of being rewritten.
>>
>> So if uselessd wouldn't drop all the .timer, .device etc. and the udev
>> integration, it would be a real alternative.
>>
>
> But .timer .device etc is "those components could have been externalized
> in some way instead of being rewritten"?
> As I understand their page, it all was dropped in uselessd.
>
>


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