Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 03:37:21PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:20:05AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> > But why is a 30-year-old concept necessarily worse than a new one? Or to put it
> > another way, why is it necessary to "bring Linux forward", in cases where what
> > is already present is good and works well? (And, taken further: in cases where
> > what is already there *isn't* good and/or *doesn't* work well, why is it
> > necessary to accept change *in a particular direction*, if that direction has
> > problems of its own?)
> Because System V Init isn't a good concept.
This I disagree with.
It has problems, yes. But it's been able to boot billions of machines
for several decades. That can't mean it's not good. Things that aren't
good can't manage to do such things.
There are problems with systemd too, and they're not limited to "the
developers are obnoxious".
Copyshops should do vouchers. So that next time some bureaucracy requires you
to mail a form in triplicate, you can mail it just once, add a voucher, and
save on postage.