[coldtea]

>That is misrepresenting (perhaps to the point of straw man) the systemd complaints.

Maybe, but not the one's I've seen. Can you point to some collection of systemd complaints that go beyond "this is not how things used to be done"?

[digi_owl]

http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_...

[coldtea]

Most of these are either of the "it's not how it used to be done variety", bug complaints (which can and do get fixed), and "straying of the unix way" (as if that is a technical argument.

Sometimes you DO need to stray off the UNIX way to improve things, namely any time "does one thing well" comes to the detriment of "needs overall overview and cooperation instead of a disparate set of things that can't be glued properly for the task based on a motto meant for simple text-based input/output programs".

There are some valid concerns too, but nothing that's a show-stopper -- which also explains why the show didn't stop.

[digi_owl]

OVerview and cooperation, sure. But everything in one ball of code because of "APIs"?!