On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:22:42 +0200 Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > In my opinion, if I have to start hacking random C to add or adapt > > features (which happens as soon as the builtins do the wrong things - > > that's about twice a year for me) it'll be a lot more crashy than a > > simple shell script where I add one line of code. > > Having most of the distribution maintainers playing in with boot > critical shell scripts is worse. I've been faced with so many poorly > written shell scripts over distributions for decades that I can't > believe in your "C is more crashy" statement. If it makes it easier to find and stop things like avahi then that's one bonus. That's one of the reasons I chose Arch. I wouldn't put it past Ubuntu to build avahi spawning into systemd itself so it can't be stopped, mu wha ha ha.
