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

Felipe Contreras felipe.contreras at gmail.com
Wed Aug 15 09:11:33 EDT 2012


On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Rémy Oudompheng
<remyoudompheng at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2012/8/15 Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>> Am 15.08.2012 13:34, schrieb Felipe Contreras:
>>>>>> 1./ Be a small simple binary
>>>>>
>>>>> The systemd main binary is not very large (larger than sysvinit's
>>>>> /sbin/init, but not by much).
>>>>
>>>> But that binary alone is useless, and certainly not *simple*.
>>>
>>> /sbin/init from sysvinit alone is useless. What is your point?
>>
>> The rest are rather simple scripts (in the case of Arch Linux).
>>
>> And you are still ignoring the fact that systemd is anything but
>> *simple*. How convenient to ignore that argument.
>
> Here are my two cents about that:
> * I don't care about having a faster boot if the sequence is incorrect
> or buggy (or, worse, leaves me with an unbootable system)
> * I don't care about having a simpler boot if it doesn't work
> * I don't care about systemd or bash scripts as long as it is
> maintained and bug-fixed.

Well, systemd is known to cause problems that render the system unbootable:
https://www.google.com/search?q=systemd+unbootable

-- 
Felipe Contreras


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