Re: New 'pg' consolidated metacommand patch

On 2020-05-27 23:42, Christopher Browne wrote:
> d) systemd is a Controversial System; the folk that seem particularly 
> irate about it seem to be "Old Bearded Sysadmins" that hate the idea of 
> redoing their understandings of how Unix systems initialize. Personally, 
> my feelings are ambivalent; I'm using it where I find some use, and have 
> not been displeased with my results.  And since modern systems now have 
> USB and network devices added and dropped on a whim, there's a critical 
> need for something newer with more dynamic responses than old SysV 
> Init.  But I certainly "get" that some aren't so happy with it, and I'm 
> not thrilled at the ongoing scope creep that never seems to end.

It is worth noting that systemd did not go for a one-binary-for-all 
approach.  It has different binaries for different parts of the 
functionality.  systemctl for controlling services, journalctl for 
controlling the journal, etc.  Just as a data point to show that there 
is no single "new" way to do things.

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