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		bitwize on Feb 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programs should be Small It used to be. It may still be if you hang out on #suckless. But most of the Linux folks these days love their huge monolithic PulseAudios and systemds.

vanwaril on Feb 24, 2013 [–]

And why would you say systemd is monolithic? Have you looked at the source-code for it? Have you looked at how services are configured with it? I would argue its far more modular than sysVinit.

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