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systemd was hardly the only one working on the problem. It was actually not even first. It just won. And it's still not ideal. Not even close.

• dale_glass 3y ago
  It's not ideal, but it's the best solution I know of. systemd actually went for as complete of a redesign as it could. Rather than just patch one issue up it tried to improve almost everything at once. Which is a fresh approach compared to what we've had before -- every distro having their own flavor of SysV helper scripts, which only do part of the job and all slightly differently.
  • gavinhoward 3y ago
    Other projects tried to do that too. And before systemd. The unfortunate lesson of systemd is that playing politics will help you win over your competitors.
    • dale_glass 3y ago
      > Other projects tried to do that too. And before systemd. Which ones you mean? > The unfortunate lesson of systemd is that playing politics will help you win over your competitors. The way I see it, systemd knew who the "customers" were. Not so much normal end-users, as distro maintainers. It heavily appealed to people sick of writing hundreds of init scripts