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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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[–] 1 point 13 hours ago* (2 children)

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 7 hours ago (1 child)

    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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