systemd: Is it wrong?

[Steve Clark]

On 07/10/2011 01:49 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 11:49:19AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
>
>> 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 suggestion isn't that having the options is wrong, it's that having
> them as the primary means of configuration is poor design. If your
> entire configuration takes the form of a shell script that constructs a
> set of command line options then you've increased fragility for no
> benefit. Having a proper configuration file and allowing admins to
> override specific aspects of that from the command line isn't a problem.
>
This is just your opinion - where in the else it this mantra preached.

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