hope not tied to SystemD

Posted Aug 17, 2025 21:34 UTC (Sun) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: hope not tied to SystemD by Wol
Parent article: Finding a successor to the FHS

> As I said before, we screamed blue murder about the amount of Office XML stuff that was defined as "what Office 95 does". Why are we now doing exactly the same thing and defining something as "what systemd does".

Putting aside the minor detail that "the amount" referenced above was actually just _once_ [1], there is a _major_ difference between saying "do what <proprietary undocumented thing> does" and "do what <a heavily-documented component of a Free Software tool that ~98.76% of the intended audience has been using for over a decade> does"

[1] 2.15.3.26 footnoteLayoutLikeWW8