Using sysvinit doesn't require a domain specific configuration language to be known and understood. So I think simpler is quite valid. Less verbose does _not_

Using sysvinit doesn't require a domain specific configuration language to be known and understood. So I think simpler is quite valid. Less verbose does _not_ mean simpler! In many cases it means quite the opposite. UNIX to me is about simplicity. We don't need crap like binary logs and heavy RPC mechanisms to be polluting beautifully simple and minimal systems. As several others have noted, the code duplication issue is solved in FreeBSD's init(8) with rc.subr.