Glenn Holmer shadowm@lyonlabs.org writes:
On 07/06/2014 03:53 AM, lee wrote:
Glenn Holmer shadowm@lyonlabs.org writes:
On 07/05/2014 06:21 PM, Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 05 July 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: The old system was considered bad, because it had 6 run levels, of which a few of them were never used. Now we have 12?
Twelve different types of *units*, of which service and target are two. A target is like a runlevel (it groups units together), except that more
Then systemd is broken by design. A shepherd is *not* a type of sheep.
systemd is broken because you don't like the terms it uses? Really?
It is not true that a shepherd is a type of sheep. Wrong usage of terms --- or call it flawed logic --- is by design, meaning it's broken by design, regardless whether I like it or not.
"Target" makes perfect sense: to reach a certain target, enable the units in its list.
A target is not a unit then.
And why would so many types of units be needed?
I don't want to read the documentation. Some of it was quoted here in a posting, and that piece was badly written and confusing.