Because discussions of all aspects of multiple implementations of an entire operating system is comparable to one single component which used to be simple?
Poettering: systemd for Administrators, Part XVIII (controllers)
Posted Oct 25, 2012 12:15 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
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From a ISV view, all the different quirks and incompatibilities with distro specific additions to sysv were hardly simple. It was convoluted and poorly documented. systemd is a huge step up.
Poettering: systemd for Administrators, Part XVIII (controllers)
Posted Oct 25, 2012 15:59 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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Used to be simple? LOL.
SysV scripts were never simple. They are almost always brittle and unreliable pieces of crap. Especially cross-distribution scripts (LSB? Ha!).