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

On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 10:52:33AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> On 10/24/25 6:14 AM, Rainer Fiebig ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote:
> > Am 23.10.25 um 23:55 schrieb Pierre Scotney ([email protected]
> > via blfs-dev Mailing List):
> > 
> > /* snip */
> > 
> > > thread. SystemD/GNOME is the the product of RedHat(IBM) wanting to 
> > > make > GNU/Linux into MS Windows, which they have the freedom to 
> > > do, but they should not try to enforce this onto the Free Software 
> > > community.
> > Sorry for intruding here.  I didn't want to say so in my previous posts
> > but I'm also increasingly getting the impression that corporate
> > interests may be behind this ever stronger and ever harder to unravel
> > entanglement of components.  Who else would profit from it?  The user
> > definitely not.
> 
> I don't think it is anything nefarious.  I think the commercial distos find
> it easier to package everything into one package.  It also makes it easier
> for binary applications to target systems from different vendors.
> 
> For those of us who want to understand the workings of the system it is not
> a good system.  Most users do not care.
> 
> As for the issue of 'user services' instances of applications seems to be a
> reflection of where multiple users use a single system at one time.  I have
> not seen that in over 30 years, but I don't work in an environment any more
> that would need it.
> 
> It seems that major developers want a single system that handles any 
> situation. The cost of that is complexity.

> The alternative, it seems, is LFS.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This 100%.  You put in the work, you reap the benefits.

Cheers
Pierre

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