[arch-general] What can be deleted, when not using systemd - was: polkit package upgrade patch

[Lukas Jirkovsky]

On 11 August 2012 19:14, Baho Utot <baho-utot at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> On 08/11/2012 12:22 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
>>
>> I would be surprised if a systemd-based system requires more resources
>> than a sysvinit-based one, but that is of course something one would
>> have to measure for each particular use-case.
>>
>> There are lots of systemd-based embedded systems cropping up (the
>> embedded world seems more excited about sysntemd than the desktop
>> world). The aim of systemd is to work on anything from embedded, via
>> desktop to servers.
>>
>> -t
>
>
> I am not looking at this from an systemd point of view.
> My point is the constant bloat with software today.  Theses bloated packages
> will not fit/function on hand held devices.
> Is it not more sensible to build small apps that do one or two things well
> then bloated apps that try to do 25 things unwell?

Systemd is broken into multiple small utilities (see eg. systemd-tools
that are used by initscripts already) that does one thing, so it's not
one big scary binary that does everything.

In fact I believe* systemd is more suited for embedded devices than
the current initscripts. Systemd is a bunch of small binaries that
should be fast to execute in contrary to interpreting piles of bash
scripts.

Lukas

* note that I'm saying this even though I don't like systemd very much
(it's just my personal opinion, so don't try to argue with that) and I
don't use it on any of my systems (nor I'm planning to in the near
future).