Re: GNOME 49 and SysV systems (possibly affecting other DEs in the future too)

Hello,

I think for educational purposes the LFS book should constrain itself to 
sysV to demonstrate the purpose of an init system in an understandable 
and simple way.

Since LFS does not *require* systemd it could be moved to BLFS as a 
prerequisite for some DEs.

In fact this could lead to describe other init systems as alternatives 
as well.
BLFS has instructions for multiple init systems, so it may also show 
systemd, openrc and whatever else is there, with a migration path from 
the LFS sysV way of doing things.

Personally I'm very unhappy with systemd, I don't like it at all. I also 
don't like gnome, but not because of systemd :-)
systemd started as a way to parallelize the startup services as much as 
possible, but it grew into a monster with more than a million lines of code.
To me it looks like its own ecosystem on top of the Linux kernel, just 
like the saying about Emacs: "nice OS, terrible editor" :-)

Stay healthy,
Thomas
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