[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

[Felipe Contreras]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> I'd love to see the overall advantages and disadvantages of each of
>> those fleshed out on a page where I can read them
>
> Here's one part
>
> A good design would make the init process which is always running and
> everyone must run.
>
> 1./ Be a small simple binary
>
> 2./ Have no dependencies
>
> 3./ Be easy to follow, fix and lockdown, best fit being interpreted
> languages.
>
> 4./ be as fast as possible
>
> systemd meets 4. Sysvinit meets 1-3 well but OpenBSDs init meets 1-3
> better

I agree in general, but systemd doesn't meet #4; we are supposed to
believe that's the case, but does it really?

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Felipe Contreras