[arch-general] Alternative init system proposal

mick bareman at tpg.com.au
Mon Feb 8 03:28:36 UTC 2016


On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 20:51:50 -0600
Doug Newgard <scimmia at archlinux.info> wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 02:37:57 +0000
> mick <bareman at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 18:30:15 -0700
> > Devon Smith <devo8604 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > Is there anything lacking in systemd    
> > A clear, logical and consistant naming convention for the services, units, etc used by systemd, on a number of occasions I have spent an hour or more looking for the script that controls a particular service. Admittedly there seems to be less of them now than when systemd first invaded. cups is a pet hate of mine, wouldn't 'cupsd' be much more intuitive than 'org.cups.cupsd.service' or am I missing something?  
> 
> Yeah, pacman -Ql <package> | grep service
> 
> Should take significantly less than an hour.
> 

Now that I know about it, but I still think cupsd.service is more intuitive.


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