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josteink on May 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Systemd has 6 service startup notification types, ...

2) This goes against the Unix philosophy

Just like ZFS, Btrfs and SANs and cloud-systems in general. And they are really suffering in popularity for these terrible violations, eh?

After having fooled around with it, my only complaint as far as systemd goes is software needlessly making it a dependency. systemd itself is just fine.

pgeorgi on May 28, 2014 [–]

I remember ZFS being lambasted for its "layering violations" a lot. Also SMF for its binary formats.

Now there's btrfs with the same type of "layering violations" and systemd ('s ecosystem) using binary formats.

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