Hackability

Posted Apr 26, 2012 19:33 UTC (Thu) by cdmiller (guest, #2813)
In reply to: Hackability by HelloWorld
Parent article: Shuttleworth: Quality has a new name

As one never needs to patch and recompile anything from /bin to hack a work around into an init script, It's your proposed comparison which lacks any pragmatic meaning.

Hackability

Posted Apr 26, 2012 20:26 UTC (Thu) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link] (1 responses)

I've never needed to recompile systemd either, so what kind of argument is that supposed to be?

Hackability

Posted Apr 28, 2012 20:21 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

In the context of hackability it makes perfect sense; if you never had to recompile then you never did hack systemd. To hack on SysV init you just change a script (and you don't have to recompile bash).

Hackability

Posted Apr 26, 2012 21:21 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Nobody stops you from rewriting a systemd unit file as a sh/bash script if you hit a deficiency in systemd.

Remember, it's fully compatible with SysV init.