Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian
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Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian
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Re: Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian
#2systemd desperately needs competition. it isnt just that it became a dependency for every low level service and a potential vector for privacy invasion, it's also janky to use.
Re: Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian
#3I find it fascinating how different people are with respect to being able to see the future, or at least caring about it. I find many people are like lumbering beasts in a forest complaining when a twig pokes them in the eye. While other saw the forest from miles away and just went around it.
Gentoo is still home to a sizeable number of users who noped out of systemd more than 10 years ago. This is exactly the kind of thing they saw on the horizon. Why does it take others so long to see the same thing?
Re: Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian
#4Tbh, the installer was inevitable after systemd integrated a bootloader, crafted a paritioning scheme for autodiscovery, took over user and home directory management, and topped it off with an updater and "system extensions" layering system that some immutable distros are using.
I'm not saying any of this is particularly bad but it's been very clear fot a while that systemd just wants to be an OS. With immutable systems the "distribution" part of it is reduced to a build system, and everything else can be provided by systemd and flatpak.
Re: Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian
#5Just install devuan?
Re: Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian
#6I'm confused... isn't Devuan exactly this?
Re: Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian
#7I find it fascinating how different people are with respect to being able to see the future, or at least caring about it. I find many people are like lumbering beasts in a forest complaining when a twig pokes them in the eye. While other saw the forest from miles away and just went around it. Gentoo is still home to a sizeable number of users who noped out of systemd more than 10 years ago. This is exactly the kind o…
Because if you dare criticise or say "I encountered a bug" the mob will get you.
Re: Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian
#8I'm confused... isn't Devuan exactly this?
Devuan us a separate Debian with its own repositories (and presumably many packages patched to improve systemd-less life), while this is just replacing Systemd with OpenRC on a Debian system, while keeping Debian repos etc.
Re: Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian
#9systemd desperately needs competition. it isnt just that it became a dependency for every low level service and a potential vector for privacy invasion, it's also janky to use.
where is it janky?
Re: Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian
#10I find it fascinating how different people are with respect to being able to see the future, or at least caring about it. I find many people are like lumbering beasts in a forest complaining when a twig pokes them in the eye. While other saw the forest from miles away and just went around it. Gentoo is still home to a sizeable number of users who noped out of systemd more than 10 years ago. This is exactly the kind o…
> Gentoo is still home to a sizeable number of users who noped out of systemd more than 10 years ago.
As a Gentoo user for the past ~quarter-century, I'd say that it's more that -unlike Debian- Gentoo has been using a system service manager that's way better than the classic SysV init for approximately forever.
The early discussion of systemd-as-init [0] was pretty much 100% focused on how much better systemd-as-init was than classic SysV init. When restricted like this, systemd-as-init is an obvious winner. But, when you consider other init systems -such as OpenRC- that provide a bunch of useful scaffolding and support tools (rather than demanding you reimplement all that yourself) the benefits of using systemd-as-init are far less clear.
I've mentioned this before in an HN comment or two from way back when, but I'm really mad at myself for not recognizing how extremely important the "What should Debian adopt to replace the incredibly ancient SysV init?" discussion was and failing to take part in it. OpenRC was knocked out of contention for reasons that were never really clear to me, and I'd have loved to put a bunch of time and effort into fixing whatever deficiencies the Debian folks believed made it unworthy of consideration.
Oh well.
[0] ...as well as some-to-much contemporary discussion...