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0 pointsimiric2y ago0 comments

I'm still not clear whether quadlets are a feature of Podman or systemd...

The reliance on systemd is an issue on its own. Much has been said about its intrusion in all aspects of Linux, and I still prefer using distros without it. How can I use this on, say, Void Linux? Standalone Podman does work there, but I'm not familiar if there were some hacks needed to make it work with runit, and if more would be needed for this quadlet feature.

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gigatexal2y ago

I mean the best part about open source and Linux is that you have choice. Do you want to run an OS devoid of SystemD? Fine. Will you be going against the tide and leaving a large part of the ecosystem behind? Yup.

I’ve chosen to embrace systemd and learn it as it is the defacto standard it seems rather than fight what I think is a futile war against it. That being said. I won’t force you to use it if you don’t. But I do not see quadlets using systemd as a failing.

hexo2y ago

systemd is extremely intrusive. anything dependent on it is a failure.

voidnap2y ago

This is such a bizarre comment. I run systemd a number of Linux machines currently but does that mean they are failing? Is taking advantage of systemd's features a failure? They run and do their function so in what sense are they failing or what does failure mean?

figmert2y ago

By my calculations, considering much of the world runs on RH/Ubuntu/Debian, all of which use systemd, things depending on systemd are far from being a failure, cos they'll run on the majority of systems.

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yrro2y ago

"quadlets" are podman using systemd's extension mechanism [systemd.generator(7)] to create systemd services that invoke podman to run containers, based on the files you drop into /etc/containers/systemd.

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