Re: Help needed to configure and compile gpsd to run on a Raspberry Pi 4 and NOT use systemd

[tangoing . mill745]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 01:43:48PM -0600, Patrick Conroy wrote:

> systemd seems as controversial as whether beans belong in chili or not.

I'll bite.

Most of the problem (if that is the right word) with systemd is not
with systemd's PID 1 and /etc/rc implementation. It is with the
project consuming more and more of the traditionally separate Unix
sysadmin and configuration space, seemingly just for the convenience
of the project itself. I.e. cron, DNS, NTP, I don't even think the
list is finite ;-)

I can see that this might not be much of an argument for those who
haven't spent major parts of their computing life with the prior
tools.  But we geeks over 50 exist, and we're not ready to die, yet.

Another part of it is restrictive defaults, that is starting
*everything* in some sort of sandbox. That leads to the system not
being really Unix anymore, because everywhere the normal Unix
permissions end up overriden by the new Linux specific mechanisms.
While I am not sure if this is strictly the result of upstream
systemd, or unit files crafted by distributions, it is clear enough
that this is in fact the intent of the systemd developers.

Just my twopence ; I'll not post in this thread again.

-- 
Ian