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by digi_owl
4065 days ago
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Because they don't use the sexy tech de jour, containers. Gobo and Nix (Guix is something of a reimplementation of Nix) get around the whole "dependency hell" that Poettering's container fetish is supposed to solve without requiring the use of container, cgroups, or any of the other "sexy" that systemd uses (though i have come to understand that Nix has adopted systemd). Heck, Gobo is basically driven by shell scripts. And its boot system is the sysv's init binary combined with homegrown scripts (it may be likened to BSD init). |
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Containers are also part of Nix (which unlike Guix uses systemd). AFAIK, in Nix these are used for booting up an isolated environment (e.g. if you're running some binary which you perhaps would like to isolate).
But they are two different things: nix package manager -> managing dependencies, containers -> managing isolation.
By performing both at once, I feel systemd is not only breaking the Unix ethos (do one thing, and do it well); but it may eventually also creep into the package manager arena. Eventually, most userland will belong to systemd.