The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate

Posted Nov 17, 2014 23:41 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate by Seegras
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate

I ran Emacs as init for a while, but its service supervision really isn't very good.

One shouldn't write init systems in Lisp anyway. They have not enough pros and far too many cons.

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Posted Nov 19, 2014 22:04 UTC (Wed) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link] (2 responses)

> One shouldn't write init systems in Lisp anyway. They have not enough pros and far too many cons.

In case anyone didn't get the joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cons

Posted Nov 19, 2014 22:29 UTC (Wed) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link] (1 responses)

> In case anyone didn't get the joke ...

thanks for pointing that out!! I would have missed it otherwise and that would have been a shame.

Posted Nov 25, 2014 22:11 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I dunno. Your software saves my data repeatedly, I make you chuckle once.

It doesn't really seem like sufficient recompense...