[175621] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Sat Oct 25 16:55:52 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <544BDC64.1050600@satchell.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 13:55:43 -0700
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
To: Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net>
wrote:
> ...
> Oh, and I hate binary logs. Period. If you can't stand plain text,
> then try XML. At least humans have a *chance* to read it without having
> to make fancy reader tools.
>
>
Completely agree on this point--but I fail
to see why it has to be one or the other?
Why can't systemd have a --text flag to
tell it to output in ascii text mode for those
of us who prefer it that way?
The appeal to Unix versus Windows/MacOS
for me was that Unix variants believed in choice
and flexibility; I find it odd to see that idea
falling out of fashion now. It would seem like
the systemd developers could reduce a lot
of resistance simply by adding the option
to emit output as text logs instead of binary
logs for us Crusty Old Farts(tm).
Matt
