systemd: Is it wrong?

[Jon Masters]

On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 23:32 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> 
> On 07/08/2011 10:57 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> > Or in other words: configuration via command line arguments or
> > environment variables sucks.

I disagree. It doesn't suck. It's the way UNIX and Linux have done this
for dozens of years, and it's the way countless sysadmins know and love.
"Sucks" might be true from the point of view of "hey look at this great
thing I just designed", but it's very much not true from the point of
view of the sysadmin working on the weekend who's just thinking "gee,
what the heck is going on, why won't this just work how it has done for
the past twenty years?". In other words "suck" depends on viewpoint.

Jon.