Re: systemd controversy

On 3/18/24 20:56, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

I was thinking more about code being written for in-house use by
particular customers--I should have made that clear.

That is fair enough.

However, what you say is true for open-source code that is being
published. Though I suspect it would still be helpful to provide some info
about how interlocking processes are supposed to fit together, and
systemd .service files could serve as a lingua franca for that, even for
distros that don’t use systemd. The declarative systemd unit-file syntax
should be easier to translate to other forms than perhaps going the other
way.

I agree that it could be useful for a project to provide some barebones units for that. If you are, for example, a maintainer for devuan (a systemd less debian) I imagine you will appreciate those being there for documentation rather than not.