On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 07:38:01 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > If you "rc-update del" a service, you wouldn't > > prevent it from being started neither, just because OpenRC is still > > able to pull it in as a dependency. > > True, except with OpenRC, all the config is located together. Not > mostly in / usr/.... somewhere with overrides in /etc/... > I dislike all tools that split their config in this way.
Conversely, I prefer it. The package defaults should be set in /usr, /etc is for customisation. xorg works the same way with settings in /etc/overriding those it /usr. It saves cluttering up /etc with tons of default settings. However, with both openrc and systemd you don't need to trawl the filesystems to find the settings, using the provided tools, rc-update and systemctl in this case, is both preferred and simpler. One of the benefits, IMO, of systemd, is that it brings a consistency to operations. In many cases the systemd tools do the same as their non-systemd equivalents, but they follow a consistent style guide. Of course, this means that they may work differently to the way you are used to and there is definitely a learning curve in switching to systemd. I also didn't discover mask/unmask for a while, only finding it when I was looking for something else in a man page. Running a mixture of systemd and openrc boxes, I more often find myself doing thing wrong on the openrc boxes these days and missing systemd features. -- Neil Bothwick Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.
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