What breakage does this actually fix?

Posted Jun 8, 2016 5:59 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: What breakage does this actually fix? by iamsrp
Parent article: Distributors ponder a systemd change

Lennart got tired to (re-)configure his grand-ma and cousin's PC.

The Linux desktop is coming!

What breakage does this actually fix?

Posted Jun 8, 2016 7:25 UTC (Wed) by SimonO (guest, #56318) [Link] (1 responses)

On the (single user) desktop, I don't see much of a problem with this idea.

On servers, cluster nodes in a scientific environment, shared desktops, etc. I'd expect this to be disabled by default. With Linux that is the majority of use-cases, as single user linux-desktop is a small niche of the whole spectrum I guess...

The whole thing appears to be in the hands of distributors. Systemd is a raw tool (like a swiss army knife with a BFG 9000 included ;-) and they need to expose only the safe parts for normal use and include some safety precautions for the BFG.

If all distro's have to put in work to make every new systemd release palatable it should become an upstream problem to reduce the redundant work in all distro's.

What breakage does this actually fix?

Posted Jun 8, 2016 8:34 UTC (Wed) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link]

> If all distro's have to put in work to make every new systemd release palatable

It's not that much work to integrate new systemd releases. It often aligns behaviour and reduces differences across distribution, making things easier. It is usually the differences causing the interesting bugs. Theoretically you should be able to modify anything you want, but it does lead to bugs.