Craig Sanders <[email protected]> writes:
> if it was *just* an init system, then it wouldn't be a monolithic
> monstrosity resulting in a mono-culture. but it's also absorbing
> syslogging, cron, udev, console and login handling, automount, and
> everything else in sight.
I noticed yesterday that readahead-fedora (the only readahead currently
in Debian) has been abandoned upstream because its functionality is now
absorbed into pid 1.
> an init system doesn't need to do all those things. it just needs to
> handle starting up daemons/services in the right order at boot time, and
> killing them later on shutdown or reboot.
Preferably one that's as simple as possible, because when (not if) it
goes tits-up, you won't have enough of a system up to fix it remotely.
(Modulo a BNC, which is an entire bag of different pain.)
For me, systemd (and pulseaudio and avahi) boil down to:
Lennart (claims to) solve problems I don't have.
I could ignore avahi and pa, because I Don't Do Desktops.
I can't ignore systemd because it's likely to end up on servers.
And I know from past experience with cinit/minit that dropping in a
distro-unsupported init is... nontrivial.
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