On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 09:25:42PM +0000, David Boyes wrote:
> Few people understand it, the documentation is fragmented and not very well
> edited,  there are few examples so far, and the method being used to
> introduce it doesn't permit easy transition. It works, but awkwardly. 

The documentation is available in man pages and I didn't find it lacking so
far, to be honest. And the easy transition is there: You can depend on init
scripts. (Contrary to upstart where the two worlds are split.)

(At least that's how the migration on the Debian side is working. I do
not have experiences with RPM-based systems using systemd. And I don't
say that there are no problems on Debian with systemd that are due to
our drop-in implementation.)

> Like most stuff: it's not the technology, it's how it's used. I'm still
> skeptical. I can see why something like it is needed, but IMHO the
> implementation is unnecessarily cryptic. But, nobody asked me, so there. 8-)
> It is what it is, and now we're pretty much stuck with it. It has to be
> better than hand editing the inittab file. 

Ok, so people did use inittab instead of runit/dæmon-tools… and I thought it
was mainly TSM that was being odd. ;-)

Critique of the implementation can be very well warranted, but your initial
remark seemed like it aims at criticizing the New Way™ instead of the
implementation.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

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