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

Chris Bannister cbannister at slingshot.co.nz
Thu Oct 23 07:45:55 UTC 2014


On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 06:22:30AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:01 AM, Andrei POPESCU
> <andreimpopescu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mi, 22 oct 14, 07:08:51, Chris Bannister wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 01:56:36AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >> >
> >> > 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.
> >>
> >> Maybe an oxymoron?
> >
> > Assuming "entangled" assumes there are some modules that are entangled,
> > then yes :)
> 
> Ever seen a ball of yarn?

Yes. I doubt systemd is full of spagetti code though.

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