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Systemd Looking At A Future With More Varlink & Less D-Bus For IPC (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So, Poettering wants to make life difficult for everyone using something other than his precious again by transitioning from the normal standard for IPC to something hardly anyone has ever heard of or uses that's based on JSON? Seriously? 🤢

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not just "hardly anyone," it's "literally no one." Varlink was invented by the systemd developers out of whole cloth specifically for this purpose.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This has always been the whole point behind the Trojan Horse that is systemd. Now that Poettering/Red Hat control the entire userspace across virtually all distros, he/they can use it as a vehicle to force all of them to adopt whatever bullshit he thinks of next.

This is what the Linux ecosystem gave away when they tossed their simple init system to adopt the admittedly convenient solution that is systemd. But in reality, the best solution was always to drop init, and instead replace it with an alternative that was still simple to replace if the need should arise. But now that everyone is stuck on systemd, they're all at the mercy of Poettering's Next Stupid Idea.

Convenience comes at a price. systemd is the Google Chrome of Linux userspace. Get out while you can.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Jesus fucking Christ, why is everything a war? Its so fucking exhausting.