Entangled monolith? [was: Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems]

[Andrei POPESCU]

On Ma, 21 oct 14, 07:46:14, Joel Rees wrote:
> 2014/10/21 4:12 "Andrei POPESCU" <andreimpopescu at gmail.com>:
> >
> > On Ma, 21 oct 14, 03:00:59, Joel Rees wrote:
> > >
> > > Would one expect the parts of a monolith to refrain from knowing too much
> > > about each other?
> >
> > How can a monolith have different parts?
> 
> Well, that's kind of the whole point with monolithic software.
> 
> Things that should have parts, effectively, don't.

I'm not questioning whether it should or not have parts.

> In other words, you can't separate the parts out and work with them
> individually without being very careful about the side-effects of the
> changes you're making.
> 
> But surely you know that?
> 
> (I wouldn't think this OT, but I'll respect your choice.)

I was actually curious about the expression "entangled monolith", which 
doesn't make sense at all for me, but then I'm not a native English 
speaker. In my understanding this doesn't even qualify as a pleonasm.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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