Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news1.tnib.de!feed.news.tnib.de!news.tnib.de!.POSTED.torres.zugschlus.de!not-for-mail From: Marc Haber Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Distros specifically designed for children Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 09:01:56 +0200 Organization: private site, see http://www.zugschlus.de/ for details Message-ID: <101e9h4$1vrbq$1@news1.tnib.de> References: <1017d93$3aupc$2@dont-email.me> <1017efm$3b95f$1@dont-email.me> <1017o1h$39umi$1@dont-email.me> <1017rcg$3e1i6$1@dont-email.me> <10181qd$3er4t$1@dont-email.me> <1018iiq$3lujt$4@dont-email.me> <1018k1q$3hked$1@dont-email.me> <1018nhd$3mqbn$2@dont-email.me> <101a06j$3tf0k$4@dont-email.me> <101bqup$d3l6$5@dont-email.me> <101dbhc$mkpm$9@dont-email.me> <101e3t2$1vf28$1@news1.tnib.de> <101e8ik$104ce$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 07:01:56 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news1.tnib.de; posting-host="torres.zugschlus.de:81.169.166.32"; logging-data="2092410"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@tnib.de" X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >On Sat, 31 May 2025 07:25:53 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>> >>> systemd had extensive backward compatibility with sysvinit scripts >>> right from the beginning. Otherwise nobody would have bothered with >>> a transition that would have been more painful than it needed to >>> be. >> >> And here comes that attitude that I'd like to complain about in the >> systemd makers: They're planning to rip the init script compatibility >> layer out. > >Yeah, I heard about that. Like anything in Open Source, who is going to >maintain it? init script compatibility is little more than a generator. It's easy to maintain inside the systemd sources, it's way harder to maintain if one has to maintain a build system, a package, dependencies etc around the ripped out code that all is unnecessary if it were still part of the package. >Nobody wants to do unnecessary work without reward. Writing widely used software comes with responsibility. Part of that responsibility is that you get to work on parts of the software that you don't use yourself instead of expecting that everybody is going to accept your way. It is an attitude to dismiss other people's valid opinions like that. Greetings Marc -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 6224 1600402