• Auzy@beehaw.org
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    6 months ago

    You can’t think of it a single massive project. It’s actually lots of small components.

    We could argue the linux kernel is bloated too. The reality is though, provided the project is designed to be modular (as SystemD is), it actually makes sense to keep it together, to ensure there is a standard base and all the components are synchronised fully with their API’s.

    It also saves distro’s a lot of effort.

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      6 months ago

      distro’s

      You can pluralize without the apostrophe. In fact, you never need an apostrophe to pluralize.

      It also saves distro’s a lot of effort.

      Only if they want to break free.

      And they don’t need nfsroot or a separate consolidated /usr mount or, really, a whole host of things that lennart didnt understand and unilaterally broke like an arrogant noob.

      But that’s blasphemy.

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      6 months ago

      In practice, all those tight coupling between components mean that it behaves more or less monolithic, despite the claims to the contrary. Replacing them with alternatives is a pain because something else breaks or some software has a hard dependency on it.