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Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement (outpost.fosspost.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

that systemd is not one large thing, but a (large) collection of tools.

Who don't work without Systemd. And Systemd can't coexist with tools in the same repo doing the same job in a portable way.

I think Chimera was it (?) which tried to have Systemd and Runit and others in the same repo. With lots of wrappers and shims. Not because of Runit & co.

[–] atzanteol 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just like gnu utils.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

But gnu utils work on BSD and others, while Systemd is Linux only.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Right. That reminds of the time I was visiting a friend who had broken his Linux computer (No, not "apt-get remove --purge systemd" but they did something slightly similar). When I booted from a live Linux, used chroot and wanted to use configure networking : FAIL because systemd was ... not running. As he had no Internet because of his broken machine this caused some delays in fixing this but we got the job done eventually.