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.