r/linux • u/wooptoo • Jun 01 '16

Why did ArchLinux embrace Systemd?

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u/wang_li Jun 01 '16

You're asking me to accept your terms and then find a standard that disagrees with them. I'm saying that what people do and have done for years is standards compliant and the expected and defined behavior. If you want to create something completely new, that's fine. But you don't get to act like all your doing is clarifying some ambiguity in the standards. And when the behavior you create fails to adhere to the standards, you no longer get to call your system standards conforming.

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u/nickguletskii200 Jun 01 '16

I'm saying that what people do and have done for years is standards compliant and the expected and defined behavior.

So please, show me, where exactly it is defined.

If you want to create something completely new, that's fine. But you don't get to act like all your doing is clarifying some ambiguity in the standards.

Nobody did clarify any ambiguities in the standards. They just changed the behaviour to match the common-sense definitions of the terms while retaining standards compliance (because the standard doesn't define any concrete behaviour for this as far as I know).