On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 02:56:17PM -0400, m.roth at 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: > 9. 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. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>