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Fast boot

Posted Nov 10, 2012 7:50 UTC (Sat) by Eckhart (guest, #74500)
In reply to: Fast boot by gb
Parent article: LCE: Systemd two years on

> There is big difference between flexibility and problem solving. There are many reasons to change the scripts: learning […]

Nothing prevents you from doing that with C files: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/

> […] configuring […]

You see, this is the main problem with "hackers" (compared to actual programmers): they fail to understand that code and configuration are two different things. "gcc config.c && ./a.out" is *not* a great audio player with a rather complex configuration file.

> […] debugging unrelated issues […]

If you need to change the internals of one component to debug unrelated issues, then your encapsulation is probably wrong.

> […] making a copy

There is no DRM, feel free to copy.


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