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by asveikau 4206 days ago
You and others speak as if nobody ever had a reason to make their distro work differently. That they're just all evildoers who change stuff for no reason. Maybe you can say there is some of that, or that it emerges as a net result, but in a lot of cases people have honest differences of opinion about the right thing to do. So if person 1 has idea A and person 2 has idea B, you're going to deny one of them to get their problem solved simply because they are scratching at the same itch from two angles? Sounds kind of like software fascism to me.
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EmanueleAina 4206 days ago
Many of the current incompatibilities between distributions are not due to evil reasons but mostly historical ones. The vast majority of distribution maintainers, ie. those who should care most about those differencies, already think that it should be time to get rid those differencies and this is the reason systemd has seen such widespread adoption.

Package management is already a sufficiently big differentiator that there's no need for separate network configuration systems.

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asveikau 4206 days ago
> The vast majority of distribution maintainers, ie. those who should care most about those differencies, already think that it should be time to get rid those differencies

Sounds made up.

> and this is the reason systemd has seen such widespread adoption.

It seems more like a few very influential players are in favor and the smaller people must follow suit if they want to be compatible. The latter part doesn't seem nearly as voluntary as you suggest.

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EmanueleAina 4204 days ago
If you believe that this sounds made up you don't have to trust me, check directly with them in the appropriate venues (ie. IRC or mailing lists). Most of the Debian Developers I know are quite sure that how to configure network interfaces is definitely not the most awesome distribution differentiator, and are seriously aware of the big limitations of the current solution.

Also I don't know who you're referring to with "influential players" vs. "smaller people". How such "influential players" are forcing "smaller people" to do things they don't want? Care to elaborate?

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