On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 02:56:17PM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I think that a lot of these objections are addressed here:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken/
Great. And it's from freedesktop... as opposed to, say, a system user, and which implies to me that it's for runlevel 5 GUI-only users....
This seems to be a common misconception.
To quote http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html:
- Myth: systemd is a freedesktop.org project.
Well, systemd is certainly hosted at fdo, but freedesktop.org is little else but a repository for code and documentation. Pretty much any coder can request a repository there and dump his stuff there (as long as it's somewhat relevant for the infrastructure of free systems). There's no cabal involved, no "standardization" scheme, no project vetting, nothing. It's just a nice, free, reliable place to have your repository. In that regard it's a bit like SourceForge, github, kernel.org, just not commercial and without over-the-top requirements, and hence a good place to keep our stuff.
So yes, we host our stuff at fdo, but the implied assumption of this myth in that there was a group of people who meet and then agree on how the future free systems look like, is entirely bogus.
freedesktop.org hosts a variety of software projects, not all of which are desktop-oriented. Just look at the list here:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/
It's worth noting that much of the software projects hosted there are desktop-oriented, but that doesn't mean that systemd is only for desktops. It just happens to be the site where the systemd documentation resides, and is a great place to peruse if you are interested in learning more about systemd.