On Wed, 13 Jul 2016, Rowland Penny wrote:

> Hi, over on the Samba mailing list, somebody asked what '--with-systemd' was
> for. It has now degenerated into a discussion on how to get systemd to start
> the 'samba' deamon, after approx 50 posts on the subject, the discussion is
> still going on.
>
> I thought that they said systemd was better than init scripts :-D
>
> see here for the first post:
>
> https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2016-July/201066.html

said by a Samba developer , this is priceless

"""
You have your opinion and I have mine and my opinion (for what it is
worth) is that systemd is something that is looking for a problem that
doesn't really exist and then fixing the problem in a totally insane
way. If systemd was just another init system and was easy to change then
I wouldn't mind, but it keeps gobbling up things that have nothing to do
with an init system and is becoming extremely hard to remove.

As far as I am concerned, this ends this conversation, you have my
opinion and nothing will change it, so don't bother trying.
"""

completely agree, and more....

besides, people at Samba are very good and well seasoned coders. They
haven't only managed to reverse-engineer a closed protocol and make an
open source daemon which is massively used and works across all major
operating systems. Some of them are also responsible for developing
rsync, which is... well before it existed the world was different.

I have massive respect for them and I'm not surprised someone among
them has such an opinion of systemd.

ciao