Re: systemd controversy

[Kevin Chadwick <kc-usenet@chadwicks.me.uk>]

\r>That’s purely down to how you choose to implement it--it has nothing to do
 
>with the format--and meaning--of those unit files themselves. Nobody can 
>stop you from writing bad code to parse a good format.
>

I'm skeptical of the flexibility being lost. Perhaps it is possible but Ada
 was specified competitively. Had Linux init been handled competitively then
 I doubt they would have attempted and failed to move away from scripts
 entirely. Likely openrc, runit or a new init system would have succeeded.

>> In my experience init scripts are made entirely of simple commands that
>> are documented and editable, piece by piece.
>
>sysvinit scripts are full of boilerplate sections that users regularly 
>copy and paste from one to the next, without thinking too much about what 
>they do.

SysV init scripts are quite horrid but OpenBSDs rc system is far more
 transparent, flexible and nicer to work with than systemd.


-- 
Regards, Kc