Comment by fsflover

3 months ago

>> Yes, it is maybe monolithic (but so is the Linux kernel).

> it really isn't, it's largely a collection of relatively small binaries that do one thing well but they are designed to work with each other.

So where are all small the projects trying to replace the small parts of systemd? AFAIK there are no stable or convenient APIs in all those parts, so even though technically systemd consists if many binaries, it is monolithic.

This is exactly what people call "forces distributions to use it", i. e., you must choose all or nothing.

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gf000  3 months ago

I don't believe Linux userspace maintainers are lining up en masse, plus if your alternative implementation doesn't significantly improve the status quo, why even bother?

  • fsflover  3 months ago

    Here in the comments you can find a lot of complaints about non-main parts of systemd, which could be improved easily if it was actually non-monolithic.

znpy  3 months ago

> So where are all small the projects trying to replace the small parts of systemd?

you should go ask that to "small projects" developers, not to systemd developers, i guess

  • fsflover  3 months ago

    There are always people improving small things as a hobby - except for the systemd components. It tell us that it's harder than it seems.