About the Devuan excision
About the Devuan excision
Posted Jul 2, 2026 8:17 UTC (Thu) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118)In reply to: About the Devuan excision by Cyberax
Parent article: Xsnow "protestware" in Debian
> The issue here is that systemd is a huge mess at the moment. It seems to do _everything_, but it does almost nothing completely right.
It does most of the things pretty much right. People used to split hairs over "completely" since computing happened, and will do so for the foreseeable future.
> The core process supervision and journaling are OK. Everything around it is not. Mount units are a particular disaster area. Mount units are a particular disaster area. I dare anyone to say that THIS is acceptable: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/ee9a70ccc7a35b224...
You are sensationalizing. If that's the worst you have, I'd say we are in pretty damn good place.