Once upon a time, Tom Horsley <horsley1...@gmail.com> said: > On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 15:26:51 -0500 > Digimer wrote: > > SysV Init had to be replaced, it was terrible. > > Where "terrible" is a linux developer code word for "old" :-).
No, really, while SysV init was better than what came before, it was really pretty terrible at anything more complicated than starting a few independent services. Anything beyond "run this one executable" made init scripts that were non-portable and hard to follow/debug. Services that had dependencies that couldn't easily be expressed by simple lexical ordering had all kinds of cobbled bits in the init scripts that was just terrible. And it really didn't handle any kind of dynamic system, where things might come and go. Having a bunch of independent layers crammed on to handle that didn't really mesh well either. systemd-the-project that seems to have continual scope creep may not be the best (IMHO), but systemd-the-init-system is a vast improvement on what came before. "Old" isn't inherently bad, but then neither is "new". -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
