Skribent: Alessandro Selli Dato: Til: dng Emne: Re: [DNG] tiny service state api [WAS: Fwd: init system agnosticism]
Il 18/04/2017 23:10, Alessandro Selli ha scritto: > On 18/04/2017 at 19:01, KatolaZ wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 06:48:31PM +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote:
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>>>> There is really no other reasonable alternative, IMVHO.
>>> Yes, there is. It's called a good compromise. Then, outside of it,
>>> you find the purists and the extremists.
>>>
>> We have seen what an irresistible avalanche of compromises has created
>> in the systemd camp.
> Today I read someone (perhaps Enrico Weigelt) stating that one of
> systemd's
> pitfalls is wanting to be the perfect init.
Found it, it was Steve Litt instead:
«There's no need to search for the perfect init or supervisor. Long ago
we got a bunch of them that are all good enough, and can be combined to
fill almost any need. This continuing search for a perfect init is just
wheel spinning, or perhaps an excuse for profit-driven complexification.»