El mar 22 jul 2014 16:06:06 CLT, Brian K. White escribió:
That is the same complaint with systemd vs init scripts. init scripts can do anything, can be read by humans, can be read and modified even in the context of being stuck at an emergency boot shell with no tools at all but the shell itself at your disposal. Someone can write an init script one year, and 15 years later, after the company that wrote the original script no longer exists, the guy who wrote it is dead, and the very OS the original script was written for is no longer used, yet today, I can still use it, because, it's just a shell script. I can go in and change the details that need changing. A sscript from one OS 20 years ago is still usable on a completely different OS 20 years later. It's that lack of wasting time and effort re-inventing the wheel that gives us the leisure to invent rockets.
You talk like this was a sort of solid, reliable and almost eternal way to do things.. the facts are quite the contrary, init scripts are not even portable across distributions and in some cases not even from one openSUSE product to another, they require maintenance to keep up with the underlying system changes. Init scripts were a collection of buggy, ad-hoc, racy and terminally uncontrollable scripts, that is now gone, replaced by an imperfect system in the long road to sanity. -- Cristian "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org