Based on some recent news, and an interaction I had.

[fiore@brain.worm.pink]

@pj@donotsta.re as i said , i have not looked into the specifics of how flatpak would even need this. so i cannot say anything about it

[nelson@wetdry.world]

@nube thnkx

[pj@donotsta.re]

@fiore logind, tmpfiles, sysusers, user services (which are quite a recent thing still in openrc), socket activation, more...

[pj@donotsta.re]

And because of that I hate this whole discourse because people don't really look into the specifics and just pile on because of buzzwords like "systemd"

@fiore

[fiore@brain.worm.pink]

@pj@donotsta.re > logind, user services

there are alternative implementations that despite not being complete yet, are already in use by lots of people and have already proven that a standalone tool is better for this job (turnstile, for example)

> sysusers

what even is that

> tmpfiles

why is this even in systemd

[navi@social.vlhl.dev]

@pj @fiore

> sysusers

https://git.pinkro.se/Rose/gardenhouse/sysuserd.git/

> tmpfiles

https://git.pinkro.se/Rose/gardenhouse/seedfiles.git/

> socket activation

super-servers have existed for a while, and i'm honestly dubious of the performance claims systemd gives to apply it for every single possible socket -- it feels like a "trick" to shave miliseconds out of boot time more than anything else

eventually i'll be doing performance tests, and if it turns out to actually matter, then something similar will be implemented in openrc

[nelson@wetdry.world]

@pj @fiore i still don't quite understand why would flatpak, NOW, depend on systemd even though they worked this hard to have no hard dependencies on pretty much anything except a couple of userland static utilities

[fiore@brain.worm.pink]

@navi@social.vlhl.dev @pj@donotsta.re like why would anything even depend on whether socket activation is available this is making me lose my mind

[pj@donotsta.re]

Have you seen the talk that was referenced by the original post that spun this whole shitfest?

@nelson @fiore

[pj@donotsta.re]

You don't have to really but it's up to you to not use it and not the project that wants to use it

@fiore @navi

[nelson@wetdry.world]

@pj @fiore yeah i still don't understand why would a package manager like flatpak require systemd

[guigui@wetdry.world]

@nelson this situation really sucks but your art goes hard as fuck as always keep up the good work