systemd & the tightly couple core band vs a world of many inits
systemd & the tightly couple core band vs a world of many inits
Posted Apr 26, 2012 16:01 UTC (Thu) by pspinler (subscriber, #2922)In reply to: systemd & the tightly couple core band vs a world of many inits by ovitters
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Except that shell knowledge is transitive, and applies to lots and lots of stuff. A 5% increase in your shell skills thus is a 5% increase in a quite large number of things.
On the other hand, systemd config files are specific to systemd, and knowledge gained there, even if it's easier to learn, is non-transitive. So I have to learn many, unrelated things to hack here. For instance, systemd config files, dbus interfaces and scripting, etc.
On the whole, I prefer the one skill set -> many areas approach.
-- Pat
Posted Apr 26, 2012 17:55 UTC (Thu)
by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
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I'm inclined to suspect that the reason shell applies to so many things heavily depends on it having been the thing you could rely on to be there rather than actually being a good fit to the problem.
systemd & the tightly couple core band vs a world of many inits