systemd: Is it wrong?

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Sun Jul 10 22:19:03 UTC 2011


Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> said:
> Solutions that make it difficult for root to shoot themselves in the 
> foot are better than solutions that don't. Make everything possible, but 
> make dangerous things harder than safe things. That's entirely in line 
> with Unix philosophy.

When such "solutions" impact ease of config, scriptability,
customizability (script bits are customizable to handle configs that the
init-script writer didn't consider), etc., they are not better than
before.

-- 
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.


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