No systemd discussion?

[Scott Sullivan]

On 08/11/2014 02:52 PM, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> Scripts aren't portable compared to a distribution agnostic tool like
> systemd. You don't have different places to go looking for rc*
> directories and files. You don't have to deal with those rc files'
> strange distribution specific sed and awk invocations.

I'd caution against calling systemd a distribution agnostic tool. 
Actualy, it's far from it, instead forcing the distributions to a adopt 
single software solution.

This ties in with the 'friction' spoken of in another post. When there 
are changes to core software to depend on systemd (X.org, gnome, etc).. 
then as a distro you either have to get on the centralized band-wagon or 
spend enormous resources undoing that work.

I love systemd's features, but it is creating a new mono-culture in the 
process with no way to easily back out or implement later alternatives.

-- 
Scott Sullivan
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists