[Discuss] systemd sucks and containers suck and language-specific package repos suck

[Kent Borg]

On 9/9/26 10:37 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> While it is sometimes a real pain in the ass, it solves a really big 
> issue with initd. Initd worked fine in the 1980s, but it did not 
> handle dependencies well.

That was a real problem.


> Systemd was designed to handle dependencies

Yes.


> […] among many other things.

And there is the problem, these days It thinks it *is* the OS. The 
opposite of the Unix idea of doing one thing and doing it well.


> Like much software, it has become bloated.

I suspect it outgrew its design. (I don't know how good the original 
design was for the original problem.)


-kb, the Kent who was recently horrified to see that systemd thinks it 
is cron, too.