systemd: Is it wrong?

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> said:
> In this case there are sound 
> technical arguments against configuration by command line argument or 
> environment variable

I haven't seen any, just statements that they are somehow "bad" and the
new way is "better".

Command line arguments and/or environment variables allow script-based
startup to adapt to current conditions without having to edit a
configuration file.  Now maybe you could argue that every program should
figure out relevant things for itself, but here in the real world, that
will never be the case.

The environment-variable type files in /etc/sysconfig also tend to be
much easier to modify from a script than having to parse and edit random
types of configuration files (since everybody seems to know how to do
config files better than anybody else and their way is just a little bit
different).

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.