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echo: rberrypi
to: DRUCK
from: THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
date: 2020-06-13 12:14:00
subject: Re: devual linux

On 13/06/2020 12:12, druck wrote:
> On 11/06/2020 09:20, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Hah! about 60% of the updates to my MINT system seem to involve systemd.
>> It is not stable yet, and was *unnecessary in the first place*.
>
> And each update worms its way a little more in to the dependencies of
> every other pacakage.
>
>> It was just Poetterings ego trying to make work for himself.
>>
>> He should have been sacked instead.
>
> No his employer Red Hat have every right to let him turn their distro in
> to some abhorrent monolithic systemd dominated nightmare. The stupidity
> comes from from those in charge of other distros that decided to adopt
> his work - wasn't pulseaudio warning enough?
>

'every right' is a moral and political statement.
'should have' is an expression of engineering hindsight.

They are not comparable

> ---druck
>


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