Re: Distros specifically designed for children

Le 31-05-2025, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> a écrit :

>
Heh, yeah but you can see exactly what the sysvinit scripts are
doing.

No. You can believe you can see exactly what they are doing. But the
script shell is a nightmare. Some are using sh other are using bash.
And they rely heavily on environment variables which have different
values depending on a lot of things, mostly at the starting time. So,
no. Definitively no. If I agree systemd can is difficult to learn, I
fully disagree saying sysvinit is simple and easy.

If you're rewriting every single daemon yourself then you probably
would get pretty good at it by the end. But if you're just
adding/debugging things once in a while like a normal person it's
a minefield compared to relatively self-descriptive (if you
understand shell scripting at least) init scripts.

Once again I agree systemd is difficult. And there is no documentation
to start from nothing to become a master: the documentation is spread
everywhere and difficult to follow without loosing what you are looking
for. But once again, I disagree saying that systinit is easy and good.

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