Debian reconsiders init-system diversity
Debian reconsiders init-system diversity
Posted Nov 14, 2019 19:10 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Debian reconsiders init-system diversity by mezcalero
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> Pfft, well, if musl wants to be BSD then it'll never be compatible with the regular Linux platform,
The most popular Linux platform in existence uses bionic libc, and busybox is probably the second one.
The most popular Linux platform in existence uses bionic libc, and busybox is probably the second one.
> Well, again, fixing this in musl is one patch that makes many apps happy. Working around this in all those apps individually means many many patches, making only musl happy... It's pretty obvious what the more rational side here I think, no?
No, not quite. systemd is quite unusual in its enthusiastic embrace of glibc-specific features.
Most free software avoids using non-portable features of glibc exactly because it wants to be portable to BSDs and other OSes. So musl works great for it. Heck, even monsters like Java SDK work on musl.