Re: Distros specifically designed for children

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 31 May 2025 07:27:01 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>

c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

>
  Systemd is not "perfect" - but neither was SysV.
>
  I see them as "complementary", not enemies.

 
systemd fights a holy war against scripts.

>
systemd tries to express all the usual options as far as possible in a
declarative form, to minimize the need to write custom script/program
code.
>
This allows for things like “drop-in” emendations to a config file without
having to rewrite the whole thing, and tools like systemd-delta for easy
determination of where a system config has been customized.

And still they refuse to optionally allow passing for example an
ExecStartPre to a shell, forcing people to either separate things from
their systemd units into dedicated scripts (which is error prone since
those things can become out of sync), or to put themselves into
quoting hell with /bin/sh -c 'foo; bar; baz' constructs.

That is an attitude that I don't like at all.

Greetings
Marc
--
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Marc Haber         |   " Questions are the         | Mailadresse im Header
Rhein-Neckar, DE   |     Beginning of Wisdom "     |
Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 6224 1600402