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0 pointsdralley6y ago0 comments

One of the reasons distributions appreciate systemd because systemd unit files are easy to write and can easily be written and maintained upstream and used with very few if any modifications downstream.

Your average HN user doesn't see or particularly care that it makes things easier for distro maintainers, so it's much easier to push the corporate conspiracy angle than to accept that a lot of the hand-wringing takes huge amounts not-very-fun volunteer labor for granted.

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rleigh6y ago

This is one thing which is often claimed, but to my mind is poorly justified.

As a (Debian) package maintainer for over a decade, this used to be a non-issue. They were write and forget. The average package was just some simple boilerplate.

esarbe6y ago

I love not having to maintain half a dozen init scripts for three distributions but just one unit file for a well defined service manager.

bandrami6y ago

As a Slackware and OpenBSD user I've really never understood this complaint. The init scripts they ship with are neither difficult to understand nor hard to read, and new ones are very easy to write.

Maybe the LSB stuff was awful; I never used it, and for that matter I can't think of a reason I would want to. It's the old FreeDesktop.org issue: it's a probably-interesting solution to a problem I just don't have.

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