On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:03:19 +0800 Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> wrote:
Greetings,
in the last months there have been many discussions about init systems, especially systemd. The current state seems to make no one really happy - the current Arch Linux init system is a bit minimal and gets the job done, but it's not superawesome. There's things like init script dependencies that would be nice to have, but then it's about the smallest of all init systems around.
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Patrick Lauer
Gentoo Developer, OpenRC co-maintainer
Thanks for your explanation. However, I sense a confusion regarding an init system and a boot process. AFAIU openrc still uses /sbin/init -- the daemons/services are handled through a set of (ba)sh scripts. From what I learn from systemd documentation, all services are handled by one daemon -- dependencies, tracking, etc. are a natural bonus, so to say. Although I also dislike the idea of systemd-{journald,logind,...}, as long as those things are implemented via modules, I don't think they are "bloat". So IMO the only negative thing in arch's adoption of systemd is that rc.conf will have to go away :) -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D