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

[Rich Pieri]

On Wed, 9 Sep 2026 13:37:08 -0400
Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm only commenting on systemd:
> 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. Systemd was designed to handle dependencies
> among many other things. Like much software, it has become bloated.
> But it does its job.

Sometimes. If you have physical servers with high-end NICs which take
10s of seconds to negotiate with the switch, systemd will blithely
start network services like NFS. These will fail and never retry,
requiring hacks like this in crontab (if I remember the syntax
off-hand).

@reboot sleep 120 && mount -a

So no, systemd does not really solve dependency problems. It tries to
mask them and sometimes still fails spectacularly in the process.

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