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• Post #780460

  Doesn’t change the fact that it needs to be stored somewhere, if the maintainers end up facing legal pressure to implement it Sure, but trying to apply it to the entire world when only a few countries are currently impacted is fishy at best. And no, we don’t know yet what the entire world will do about it, even if Meta is trying to lobby everyone, there’s also a push for making opensource exempt from it, in that case those applying the PR have worked for nothing. Are you going to oppose...

• Post #779336

  It does provide a standard and (somewhat) central place That would be the case if everyone used systemd, but it’s not, sysvinit distros still exist and they’re not going away in the foreseeable future. I don’t think this is the hill that battle should be fought on. I could agree with this if the reason for this PR wasn’t age verification, that’s indeed a battle that needs to be fought, on every piece of the puzzle.

• Post #779301

  Luckily for me, that’s not the only option, especially since I’m not US.

• Post #779132

  There is indeed a philosophical part to it around the “do one thing and do it well”, but what you call “fear” is not an totally unfounded concern, in that it’s true that the more complex a piece of software is, the more complex maintenance also is. But you need serious technical knowledge to fully understand everything that systemd does compared to sysvinit, what are the advantages of this new system and how much its complexity can actually affect maintenance (or not). I don’t have that kind...