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    [–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

    Roughly speaking, it is because it does not follow the Unix philosophy and proposes to do several tasks making the code very complex and therefore more susceptible to bugs.

    [–] epat 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    But systemd is not a single tool, nor a single binary, it's a collection of tools.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I believe their retort would be "name one thing systemd does well"

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    That is a bit like asking "name one thing that coreutils does well" or "name one thing GNU does well".

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    The joke being "systemd does everything poorly". First heard someone say this about X and Wayland. People were saying Wayland violated Unix philosophy and the speaker said "name one thing X does well" lol.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Systemd might not be perfect but it certainly does every single thing init scripts did better than any init script.

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