why do we use systemd?

[Olav Vitters]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 01:15:53PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 12:43:57 -0400
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
> > This isn't the case.  systemd isn't monolithic.  it is a collection of
> > tools with a shared codebase where most of the tools are optional.
> 
> Its a collection of tools, all of which talk to an ever increasing
> monolithic systemd daemon which now includes init, consolekit, xinetd,
> logind, dbusd, and God knows what else in a single program.

It consists of various programs, it is not one daemon/program.

> Just because the bloat also includes separate programs doesn't
> make the systemd daemon magically not be monolithic.

Here you already mention it consists of various programs. Anyway, by
your logic coreutils is bloat. Though with systemd you probably don't
need it to boot a system :-P

Aside from this if you make a claim ("monolithic") as a response to
someone explaining exactly why it isn't, saying it is so a pretty weak
response.

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Regards,
Olav