[arch-general] systemd-nspawn/systemd-networkd/

[arnaud gaboury]

Hi,

I do not consider myself as a Linux expert, but rather an advanced
user. I am running Arch for a few years now, with a clean setting
environment and no major breakage.

I am a great fan of systemd functionallities, but I waste my time the
past two weeks setting up a working network on a systemd-nspawn
managed container with no success. My setup is rather basic : a static
IP for the main machine (it seems the HOST term is not relevant) and a
static IP for the container.

I have been reading/posting a lot, but as today didn't get a clean
answer about netctl/systemd-networkd configuration files.

Systemd is now ruling the Linux world, as more and more services are
managed by it. This is not a bad thing, but in my opinion, there is a
clear lack of good documentation/manuals/wiki. As it seems we are
bound to learn systemd, I wish the systemd community could propose
more documented manuals. This is not the case today.

We shall now engage a serious rethinking of what part of systemd shall
be in core, and what part stay in devel. A good example would be
systemd-networkd. Honestly, this service needs supra intelligence or
NASA tech engineer knowledge.

Lennart and his team are certainly very good dev and clever guys, but
they clearly don't deliver good documentation. I remember that one of
my main pain in Linux was to set up a working pulse audio service !

As a long time Linux user, I do not see any interest in setting up
packages with no serious documentations.

I do not want my post to start a new flame as the one two years ago,
but I am expecting some kind of community reaction against
beta/broken/incomprehensible services.

I wish the Arch community could be able to separate the
working/documented part of systemd from the dark/beta part only
dedicated to a few elite.