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Why do you use a systemd-less distro (if you do)? (programming.dev)
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I'm curious to know why people use systemd-less distributions. Which one would you recommend to someone who wants to stop using systemd?

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[–] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (14 children)

Majority of these are separate utilities developed under systemd umbrella.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (13 children)

    No, they aren't. These are the binaries from THE systemd package , built from systemd releases, from THE systemd repo.

    A single source tree looking like an "umbrella", and an overreaching one at that, is THE point.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (10 children)

    What do you think about coreutils, util-li nux, findutils, god forbid iproute2? They all are binaries from THE mentioned packages, built from THE repo (have you heard of monorepos?) are they also overreaching and that's THE point?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago* (9 children)

    Your "separate utilities developed under systemd umbrella" claim was simply false.

    Your attempted retort was even more funny, since many coreutils implementations can actually literally be built into a single binary with many symlinks, with dispatch done based on arg0. It's even the preferred packaging option.

    There are a lot of interdependencies within those source trees. Nothing is self-contained. So the "itz just monorepo bro" is also false.

    they also overreaching and that’s THE point?

    You literally just listed multiple projects 🤭, where their collective surface is also nowhere close the the systemd forced hegemony. Maybe they should all unite and join the "umbrella".

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago

    Of course there are dependencies. They all are tools that do one thing well amd call into other tools to do thenthings those tools were built to do. E.g. many need systemd-init to function as that is the tool to manage the livetime of services running on the system.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (7 children)

    It wasn't because it's true. They are literally separate utilities. Many is exactly two (i think) busybox and whatever the other one is called. For vast majority of people and in context it should be obvious that coreutils I was referring to is GNU coreutils, you are being intentionally obtuse. There are three, I believe, mandatory parts that fall under systemd umbrella everything else is either optional or separate. Interdependency angle is disengenious at best, programs can and have dependencies, it's laughable that you think that they aren't separate utilities because they depend on other utility.

    Forced hegemony I'm dying lol.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (6 children)

    Let's play a game. Pick a "separate utility" from the list above, and let's see if you know what you're talking about, or just waffling.

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  • [–] 1 point 15 hours ago (5 children)

    Lol, you are a clown. First one on the list.

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  • [–] 0 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

    First one on the list.

    % readelf -d /usr/bin/bootctl | rg -r '$1' '.*NEEDED.*\[(.*)\]'
libsystemd-shared-262-1.so
libgcc_s.so.1
libc.so.6
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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

    Are you familiar with the concept of shared libraries? Please, stop embarrasing yourself.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago (2 children)

    How ironic!

    Now post the output:

    ls -ld /run/systemd/io.*
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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago* (1 child)

    How boring.

    Will you ever get to the point where you say clearly why exactly bootctl isn't a separate utility? No, having dependencies doesn't make something not a separate utility. And no, communicating with systemd daemon over unix sockets doesn't as well.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago

    Good.

    So the tool YOU chose is NOT:

    • standalone at the project level ✅
    • standalone at the repo level ✅
    • standalone at the source level (trivially shown with the libsystemd-shared.so dep without requiring looking further) ✅
    • standalone/fully independent at the runtime level ✅

    This and the sibling sub-thread where I mentioned presets show with actual facts how the systemd forced hegemony actually works, where it's not just a simple case of "they just have some stand-alone cli tools under their umbrella bro".

    The project itself wouldn't try to (clumsily) dispute this either, since it's at the core of what they consider a selling point; interface unification and deeper integration with the system.

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