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Hating on systemd to hate on it is never going to give you a positive outlook. I personally really like the packaging simplicity and the concept of target files
by djsumdog 8y ago
Hating on systemd to hate on it is never going to give you a positive outlook. I personally really like the packaging simplicity and the concept of target files. But I have had lots of issues with the implementation and this article shows a pretty good example of just how complex it can get.
I wish there were drop in replacements that just reused the target/service files, but almost all of those have been abandoned.
systemd does solve legit full process management problems, but I think as we move to more docker based deployment strategies, its usefulness in that regard will start to decline.
- api 8y agoI don't hate on it to hate it. I hate on it because it's orders of magnitude more complex than it needs to be, has a history of being broken, and somehow managed to end up harder to use and more obtuse than the ancient wad of shell scripts it replaced. Its like its designers set out to make it as un-intuitive and hard to use as possible. I say this as a 20+ year Linux veteran.