> As it turns out, there was a little-known Freedesktop-affiliated project called xdg-hostname in 2009 which was a start towards creating such D-Bus “utility daemons” for use in desktop widgets and others, all as a standalone project. Had this been followed through instead of having the utility daemons end up being part of the systemd source tree, a good deal of political acrimony could have been avoided – though at the cost of reducing systemd’s leverage.
That is, if they used xdg-hostname instead, SystemD wouldn't be tightly coupled with Gnome, so users could choose between SystemD and InitV, and all this mess could have been avoided.
> As it turns out, there was a little-known Freedesktop-affiliated project called xdg-hostname in 2009 which was a start towards creating such D-Bus “utility daemons” for use in desktop widgets and others, all as a standalone project. Had this been followed through instead of having the utility daemons end up being part of the systemd source tree, a good deal of political acrimony could have been avoided – though at the cost of reducing systemd’s leverage.
That is, if they used xdg-hostname instead, SystemD wouldn't be tightly coupled with Gnome, so users could choose between SystemD and InitV, and all this mess could have been avoided.