Once you could just maintain some file from etc in a version control and setup a machine predictably with a script three lines long Then it came puppet chef an

Once you could just maintain some file from etc in a version control and setup a machine predictably with a script three lines long Then it came puppet chef and a shitload other stuff because ‘devops’ which make the task easier once and then fuck up your environment at every single upgrade changing defaults, changing dependencies and changing the environment you run I swear what could be done repeatedly the same way for a decade now it’s a frail mess that requires yearly fiddling to keep it running and current No wonder companies need so much devops people/time these days, they need them to keep following the frail shit that’s dropped into stable distro. Systemd is just one more thing that you have to reconfigure at every release because changes defaults subtly.