Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta <at> gmail.com> writes:
...
None of us who are deeply familiar with shell can You easily assess
the relative merits of systemd because we aren't familiar with systemd
yet.
Yes we are already - the discusions here were not useless, neither for me,
you, or anybody else who wanted to understand.
...
I'm utterly unmoved by any arguments which boil down to "I'm familiar
with this 20+ year old tech, and I don't want to learn something new"
...
Not true. We want to bring it to a higher level that would represent true
"progress" and "innovation". A killer init system by any standard
yet.
And the project guys can do it.
Familiar is not automatically easier or better, harder or worse. It
is
simply familiar and the longer we hold on to the familiar the harder
it will every be for us to take the time to invest in better
technologies so we can realize the full potential of those
technologies.
That's what I have just said above too.
So you are already "FOR", but you did not know about it up to now :-)
Welcome to the club !
-jef
JB