Re: Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems

[Leon Fauster <leonfauster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 08.10.2014 um 20:25 schrieb Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
> <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> But oddly, he didn't even mention that there would be a real simple
>>> solution - just add backwards-compatible improvements instead of
>>> actively wrecking the interfaces everyone else had depended on for
>>> decades.
>> 
>> 
>> "decades". That, by itself, already calls for an update, no?
> 
> No, do you dig a new foundation for your house every 10 years?  Trade
> in your wife and kids?
> 
>> But so did other systems, but they later found out that sometimes you have
>> to break this backwards to infinity compatibility in order to get some big
>> progress.
> 
> Only if the design was bad in the first place.  And if the design was
> really bad, there wouldn't be any users to infuriate by breaking the
> interfaces they use.  But the unix design that linux and linux
> distributions copied was pretty good, including the way init started
> things.

was - the requirements at that time were nearly/completely 
different. We have different scenarios right now. 

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LF


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