[mythtv-users] Who's running Myth on Arch, and what do you think?

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Mon Nov 25 16:03:25 UTC 2013


----- Original Message -----
> From: "R. G. Newbury" <newbury at mandamus.org>

> There is no doubt that systemd is *different*. And early versions had
> some ... quirks. But when set up properly, it boots FAST and provides
> much more granularity and control of what runs. Unfortunately, like
> pulse it is hard to find good information about how it works.

And that, right there, is my problem with it.  It appears to have a 
stupidly high Bus Factor; if Lennart gets hit by a truck, *no one* knows
how their machines boot.  And since that's my stock in trade commercially,
it makes me really really nervous.

And of course, since distros have switched to it wholesale, *developers and
packagers aren't /maintaining/ their initscripts anymore*, so you cannot
simply ignore it and install sysVinit yourself; they're even *taking those 
scripts out of the packages*.

Which seems more than a little bit evil to me.

Deprecate it, sure.  Warn it might need tuning, fine.  Put "exit 1" at the
top of the script, great.

But *deleting it from the package*?  No; that's beyond the pale.

But apparently, Lennart's snozzberries are *really* tasty...

Cheers,
-- jra

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