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LPC: Booting and systemd

LPC: Booting and systemd

Posted Sep 15, 2011 8:50 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
In reply to: LPC: Booting and systemd by nix
Parent article: LPC: Booting and systemd

That may work towards the claim "systemd is bloated". systemd does so much more over sysvinit, having a larger bug surface.


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LPC: Booting and systemd

Posted Sep 15, 2011 22:24 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

I highly doubt that. systemd is big but it's all in one process. No single human on this planet understands all of modern sysvinit.

LPC: Booting and systemd

Posted Sep 16, 2011 17:10 UTC (Fri) by mezcalero (subscriber, #45103) [Link]

systemd is not all PID 1. In fact we are very modular and ship 40 separate binaries or so.

LPC: Booting and systemd

Posted Sep 16, 2011 3:39 UTC (Fri) by AndreE (subscriber, #60148) [Link]

I like this approach.

Documentation comprehensiveness being directly related to software bloat would give me a compelling argument to give to my boss when asks me to provide thorough documentation for my code

LPC: Booting and systemd

Posted Sep 18, 2011 13:27 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Did I need sarcasm tags? I was trying to say 'any claims that systemd has no documentation must cater for the fact that sysvinit has dramatically less'.

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