[175408] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Oct 21 18:56:09 2014
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:55:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <5446E23A.50407@lugosys.com>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Capi" <capi@lugosys.com>
> On 10/21/2014 11:29 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> > The thing that I don't understand about systemd is how it managed to
> > get
> > *EVERY SINGLE DISTRIBUTION'S RELEASE MANAGER* on board in less than
> > a year,
> > given how thoroughly it violates the Unix philosophy, and how poorly
> > documented it is
>
> Not *every single* distribution...
I had meant to put an asterisk on that.
> I'm glad to be using Gentoo Linux at home for the last 10 years...
> They've adopted OpenRC, which is much less invasive, works with an
> existing init (possibly sysv) and uses the friendly shell scripts
> we're all used to.
Ok, but how does it handle providing initscripts? I gather any upstreams
which used to provide them aren't anymore...
Cheers,
-- jra
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