[random28345]

> how an opinion [...] is callous and myopic?

There have been hundreds of thousands of words written on how simple utilities can form the basis of supportable, complex systems and still retain the ability to be comprehensible. He has dismissed all that as beneath consideration, and he has the One True Vision™ on how Unix should be architected.

Don't get me wrong, hubris and self-righteousness have given us great things: GNU, OpenBSD, qmail, etc. But I don't think anyone would accuse rms or theo or djb of not being callous and myopic.

[forgottenpass]

He has dismissed all that as beneath consideration, and he has the One True Vision™ on how Unix should be architected.

I don't see him passing a value judgement on how it should be done, just dismissing a particular criticism as poorly founded. If you look at the difference between the Unix and Linux development models, there is a point. There are a lot of properties to Unix so it's a bad argument to say "not Unixy enough" when you really mean something more along the lines of "components take on too many responsibilities at once and are too tightly coupled."

[digi_owl]

Focusing on the repository is a distraction.

the whole of systemd sits in a single source tree in freedesktop.org. You don't find system-networkd in one tree, udev in another, systemd-init in a third.

In contrast, each part of XFCE, the window manager, the panel, etc, sit as their own source trees within the XFCE repository.