Poettering: Why systemd?

Posted Apr 30, 2011 13:24 UTC (Sat) by mezcalero (subscriber, #45103)
In reply to: Poettering: Why systemd? by mezcalero
Parent article: Poettering: Why systemd?

> > The other possibility (and apparently your favorite) is to force every Linux
> > user to place kexec in /sbin, similar to your brilliant idea to move /var/run to /run
> > just because you cannot handle a simple /var mount-point in systemd.

> Hmm, I am not forcing anybody. You can adopt systemd if you wish. I make an offer with systemd, you don't have to take it, it's free software. Note however, that *all* big distros have commited to the /var/run to /run move, including Ubuntu, regardless if they want to do systemd or not. So, complain to them, too, not just to me. Ever thought that maybe if everybody loves /run this might be the right thing and you are just misinformed?

Oh, and BTW. If your really hate those mount points so much, you can remove them. Just mask their units by linking them to /dev/null in /etc/systemd/system/.

We just ship good defaults, that's all.

Poettering: Why systemd?

Posted May 11, 2011 18:36 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Shipping good defaults is also profoundly un-Unixlike. How will people learn how to maintain their systems if they don't have to personally grind every hinge into shape?

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