[mdlug] Systemd Should Be A Fork -- Why Is It Not?

[A. Zimmer]

On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 12:02:45 -0400
Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:

> 
> You do realize the kdbus is the KDE integration into D-BUS and D-BUS is
> the 'official' IPC mechanism of the LINUX kernel that SystemD uses?
> 

No.  D-Bus is currently a user space IPC.  Kdbus is a planned integration
of d-bus into the Linux kernel.

> 
> The common LINUX user wants - for example - printer discover that
> *works*.  That requires integration of a lot of components; which is a
> goal of SystemD.
>

That's nice and good.  But not everybody wants it that way.  There
should always be forks.

Not everyone wants Gnome or KDE, and there are lots of alternatives.
This kind of choice should be everywhere.