The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate

Except that helper functions are not really helpful at all. They don't do namespacing, SELinux or even bad old chrooting. They barely provide PID file tracking, and even that without daemon readiness protocol or anything like this.

And if you do try to add them, then scripts become even more incomprehensible. Witness, the Gentoo's BIND initscript as an example: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/n...