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by microcolonel
3450 days ago
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The repository and build system are set up to allow you to disable almost everything (except core services like evdev, the "systemd" init process, journald, and D-Bus). Distributions have just found it so pointless to strip it down that they've left it largely as one package. You're entirely welcome to use your distribution's packaging scripts to produce a reduced package, if one doesn't exist yet. As far as I'm concerned, I'm happy that it's a single repository tracking consistent, interoperable versions of each of the systems in systemd. This means that there are few dependencies to track. People get upset because they're too lazy to run the build system themselves. People who are unwilling to run the build system and read the mailinglist are unfit to ship anything short of the whole thing anyway. In my opinion, if these people are complaining, it is meaningless. They are not the sort of people who can figure out how to fit their system into 8MB of flash on a tiny SoC, so them complaining that the systemd package is more than 10 megs is like a child complaining that their bedsheets are too barbie and not buzz lightyear enough. |
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Oh, so just most of the things that people hate about it. No biggie then. /sarcasm
> People get upset because they're too lazy to run the build system themselves. People who are unwilling to run the build system and read the mailinglist are unfit to ship anything short of the whole thing anyway. In my opinion, if these people are complaining, it is meaningless. They are not the sort of people who can figure out how to fit their system into 8MB of flash on a tiny SoC, so them complaining that the systemd package is more than 10 megs is like a child complaining that their bedsheets are too barbie and not buzz lightyear enough.
I can't say I've ever seen anyone complain about that. I have seen, however, people complain about broken logs, unreliable processes, butchered output, hacky fixes, obscure errors, etc.
And this is the attitude that I have an issue with. Systemd has a lot of good sides, but it also has a lot of warts. Pretending that people's legitimate concerns are nonsense is a waste of everyones time, and are what makes people who have issues want to complain at every turn.