On Fri, October 10, 2014 10:46 am, Always Learning wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-10-08 at 14:22 -0400, Digimer wrote: > >> Change is good. > > Change is inevitable in life. Virtually everything changes including the > eventual decline of our sun. Not sure about atomic weights or the value > of Pi (3.142) or E=mc² Perhaps they break the rule that everything > changes. > > Being optimistic perhaps systemd will quickly change into something more > welcoming to the vast majority of users. > It is about fundamental approach. We always modularize things: split into smaller subunits each of the last doing its smaller task. This allows to make smaller things work reliably, and test these smaller things more comprehensively. As it is much smaller number of combinations of factors you need to repeat your test with in case of subunits. People use this approach for ages. Programs are split into subroutines. Rockets are built from to awful degree independent modules. We had this "modular" system V boot until recently. We lost it. We got "iPhone, with whatever you can get in App store" instead. And not all of us are pleased by this change. And, BTW, there was one of the posts of MS Windows big fan on this list who welcomes this change; his post should have made everybody think... Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++