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[โ€“] frazorth@feddit.uk 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yep, completely agree. That was essentially the last line of my comment.

I also wish that journald had a spec for its database, or standardised on something like Sqlite which could be interrogated with generic tooling.

[โ€“] sxan@midwest.social 9 points 7 months ago

Agree, and I think I understood what you meant.

I can see an argument that Poettering is a net good because he does something, and it's usually pretty decent to start. Then after it's been widely adopted, some weird software megalomania takes over and it swells into a bloated carcass until someone is motivated enough to build a better, more focused, replacement.

systemd is a distro builder's dream: all you need is that and a kernel, and you've got most of the non-userspace, so you throw GNU on top and you're free to do what you really wanted to focus on: a new package manager, or a specific desktop environment, bells-and-whistles.

I really hate journald. Like, with enough passion I'm slowly converting all my systems away from systemd, just to get rid of it. It's slow and buggy, and the fact that I can't swap it out for something else is the reason I'm anti-systemd. Which is an excellent initd replacement, IMO, and if that were all it was I'd be a fan-boi. But journald stinks, for all the reasons you point out, and more.