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Offhand, doesn't this kind of perfectly explain systemd fear? Probably what people had in the back of their heads.
by jrm4 4y ago
Offhand, doesn't this kind of perfectly explain systemd fear? Probably what people had in the back of their heads.
- atonse 4y ago(genuine question) What was the historical fear with systemd? That behaviors get hidden behind binaries rather than shell scripts? Has the fear been realized? All systemd units can be edited easily, they're files in a filesystem. Journald logs are binary but journalctl gives you ways to output it.
- jrm4 4y agoThat's what I'm describing as a reaction at the time even if it didn't turn out to be a big deal. I'm a long time Linux guy and when I heard about systemd, the first thing it made me think of offhand was the Windows Registry. Now I'm not super-deep on that level of Linux but I could understand the knee-jerk reaction at the time. But you're correct technically, and I think time has proven that there's not much of an issue.
- the_why_of_y 4y agoHow so? systemd uses text files for its configuration, documented in systemd.syntax(7).
- jrm4 4y agoI know. That's why I've been trying to describe it more as a "feeling" than logical?