Re:Boycott systemd
by gkya on Thursday April 24, 2014 @04:32PM
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> [And] if some day illumos will succeed Linux, I'm sure people will manage to port their 10 lines of service config over.
It is not ten lines of service config being hard, though, it is grokking a new, ad hoc tech, which is necessary to get the most out of it. I have not a rage against systemd in itself; it is too low level for me to care about, process management that is, yet I'd support, to the last drop of my blood, a standard to cover initialisation. If I have to write an init script/config/whatever one day, I'd rather use a standard format that I can get to work on any system, than an ad hoc, OS-specific technology that I have to re-learn every time I switch operating systems.
You seem to overlook the importance of a process hat supervises other processes. I reckon that it should be so stable, one shouldn't notice it. That is possible if and only if the thing is tested and implemented according to a standard throughout long times.
It is not ten lines of service config being hard, though, it is grokking a new, ad hoc tech, which is necessary to get the most out of it. I have not a rage against systemd in itself; it is too low level for me to care about, process management that is, yet I'd support, to the last drop of my blood, a standard to cover initialisation. If I have to write an init script/config/whatever one day, I'd rather use a standard format that I can get to work on any system, than an ad hoc, OS-specific technology that I have to re-learn every time I switch operating systems.
You seem to overlook the importance of a process hat supervises other processes. I reckon that it should be so stable, one shouldn't notice it. That is possible if and only if the thing is tested and implemented according to a standard throughout long times.