[HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

[Horst H. von Brand]

Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 22.07.10 16:36, Horst H. von Brand (vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl) wrote:
> > Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > Well, I think good UI means that you distuingish computer parsable and
> > > human readable tools. "status" is human readable. "show"/"check" are
> > > computer-parsable.
> > 
> > Mildly disagree. It is nice to be able to remember from people-use what the
> > output looks like when computer-parsing it. It is nasty if you have to
> > remember that foo(1)'s output is for human consumption, while scripts
> > should use bar(8). People will just go ahead and use foo(1), while bitching
> > all the time about its nasty format. Here find(1) shows a nice compromise:
> > You can make it spit out stuff in computer-friendlier format, but the
> > result is not _too_ far removed from its regular output.

> Same with systemd. If you use "systemctl status foo.service" the output
> is human readable. If it is "systemctl show foo.service" it is computer
> parsable. Just a slightly different command of the systemctl tool.

Better make that a --parseable (or -C, or --format=<gibberish>) flag for
the _same_ (sub)command. Look at rpm or git for examples ;-)
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