Re:The Joy of Linux Desktop Environments
by edbrown23 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @03:26PM
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Generally systemd manages enabled/disabled services through symlinks in /etc/ (/etc/systemd/system/ on my Fedora 24, for instance), which you can add/delete in the shell if you want to. It's admittedly not plain-text, but manipulation-wise it's about equal.
Re:The Joy of Linux Desktop Environments
by mjevans on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:11PM
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It's using the default database (the filesystem) for it's configuration in that instance.
Re:The Joy of Linux Desktop Environments
by robmccoll on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:03PM
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Nice - learned something new. Thanks!
Re:The Joy of Linux Desktop Environments
by juliangoldsmith on Thursday November 17, 2016 @03:23PM
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IIRC enabling and disabling services in systemd are done via symlinks. You'd have to call a binary to start newly-added services, though. (i.e. systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl start service)
I think what bothers me about both is that the presence of text files in a predefined location is not enough to make things happen on its own. Instead of the simplest possible everything-is-a-file and interacting with the filesystem is the interface, you have an additional requirement of calling binaries and their subcommands.