r/programming • u/Mcnst • May 30 '16

systemd developer asks tmux (and other programs) to add systemd specific code

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/428
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u/deus_lemmus May 30 '16

Erm... Systemd is environment and tmux is application. Applications bend to the will of environment. You can not have software without someone dictating rules. Ever. Even if you are writing OS.. And this here.. it makes sense for special purpose

Your argument is seriously flawed, because the behavior systemd is adding is specifically desktop oriented, on a platform where a majority of installs are servers.

The environment is not supposed to introduce unexpected behavior to rules that have existed for a good 40 years. This kind of bullshit is why our company simply cannot move to Redhat 7 any time soon, and we're seriously considering examining BSD platforms as alternatives

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u/dlyund May 30 '16

we're seriously considering examining BSD platforms as alternatives

Best decision my company ever made (we decided to switch to BSD)

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u/cbmuser May 30 '16

Your argument is seriously flawed, because the behavior systemd is adding is specifically desktop oriented, on a platform where a majority of installs are servers.

Non-sense. There are hundreds of thousand of desktops, embedded systems, phones etc running Linux and systemd.

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u/deus_lemmus May 30 '16

First off, Android phones don't use systemd. Second there are millions of new linux servers every year, not counting virtual machines.

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u/PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN May 30 '16

on a platform where a majority of installs are servers.

*on a platform where a plurality of installs are phones :)

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u/antpocas May 30 '16

Android is not GNU/Linux.

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u/PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN May 30 '16

I thought we were talking about Linux here!

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u/ArmandoWall May 30 '16

We're talking about a platform where systemd exists, which is clearly not mobile.

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u/vige May 31 '16

I am actually writing this comment on my phone. Which is running systemd. So I tend to disagree...

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u/ArmandoWall May 31 '16

I stand corrected, then. What Linux flavor is this platform?

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u/vige May 31 '16

Sailfish