On 7-5-14 13:08:07 vendor wrote: > Unfortunately, the metric for "clear explanation" is not "number of > pages." (Insert obligatory derogatory humor about government > bureaucracy here.) Strangely you are replying to someone else, but quoting my message. So I'll comment. I never mentioned number of pages in my message. If you examine the documentation, you will see that it is very extensive and of the highest quality. Over the life of the systemd project, many tools have been developed to provide the "building blocks for an OS" by those developers. Hence, the documentation has grown enormously. It is well-organized and well-indexed to form a high-quality reference. Also, in my message, which you quoted: >> Also (among many others): >> >> http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html >> http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-1.html That first reference has one of the clearest explanations of systemd that exists. When I read that document right after it was posted originally, I found it very easy to understand and very well- organized. In particular, Patrick O'Callaghan lamented: On 7-5-14 14:30:39 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > +1. One of my pet gripes about systemd is that it introduces a lot > of new terminology without a clear explanation. I still don't > understand the difference between a target and a service. Well, that very first posting by Lennart clearly explains, after discussing the motivation for systemd: 1. service: these are the most obvious kind of unit: daemons that can be started, stopped, restarted, reloaded. ... 6. target: this unit type is used for logical grouping of units: instead of actually doing anything by itself it simply references other units, which thereby can be controlled together. Examples for this are: multi-user.target, which is a target that basically plays the role of run-level 5 on classic SysV system, or bluetooth.target which is requested as soon as a bluetooth dongle becomes available and which simply pulls in bluetooth related services that otherwise would not need to be started: bluetoothd and obexd and suchlike. I fail to see where the complaints about the systemd documentation come from. Actually reading the documentation makes all these complaining comments moot. -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
