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Author: KatolaZ
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] tiny service state api [WAS: Fwd: init system agnosticism]
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:21:05PM +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote:

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>
> > And why should a program/daemon care if
> > it has a monitor or not ?
>
> Why should a car driver care if the traffic light has the red or the
> green light turned on?
> Why should a sysadmin care if the OS he uses runs systemd or not?
>


This is a totally wrong assumption. Being a sysadmin is all about
setting and implementing *policies*. And the choice between systemd or
anything else is exactly a matter of policy. So yes, a sysadmin *must*
care if the OS he/she uses runs systemd or anything else.

HND

KatolaZ

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