On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 16:48 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >> those are bash scripts > > Exactly, but what is better when we need to use irrational cryptic text > files to set up or Linux, instead of easy to understand bash scrips? Yeah, because key=value pairs are more complicated then, you know, a programming language? Its not like systemd even prevents you from USING bash if you feel it should be an integral part of the init system.