Wrong, they are going to ram systemd down our throats. Believe you me. And why
is the onus always on the end-user?
Most of us who work on initscriptst agree that systemd is superior and
that most people will move to it one day. However, we are trying very
That's what worries me, that you sincerelly find it superior. I don't doubt
your good intentions.
I've worked as a Linux sys-admin for 12 years now, and I've always found
sysvinit and the bunch of shell scripts, hard to manage and lacking in
basic features.
What systemd provides now is total knowledge of the state and origin of
your processes. That wasn't possible with the sysvinit scheme. It's a
great help to anyone working wit Linux professionally.
The declarative unit files are also a step in the right direction IMHO,
since you can't break them, and with it the whole boot process.
BUT, this thread was not about systemd. This was about splitting
/etc/rc.conf in Arch, and unifying at least part of the system config
with other distros. Debian, Fedora and OpenSuse will use the same files
now - and I think it's great that we see some consolidation. It doesn't
make much sense to have 100 schemes for configuring these basic stuff.
Also, by splitting it in different files you make it more robust. You
don't want to bork your network setup just because you were editing your
locale and forgot to close a quote.
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