Please don’t hard-code assumptions

Posted Feb 5, 2019 0:15 UTC (Tue) by jccleaver (guest, #127418)
In reply to: Please don’t hard-code assumptions by mbiebl
Parent article: Systemd as tragedy

> I was mainly commenting since you mentioned that you have no problem in rebuilding packages from source but in case of systemd you found it was somehow hard-coded deep inside the code which made this unnecessarily hard/impossible.

I've regularly version-bumped upstream RPMs or added in a custom patch (if necessary) for sites I've been at, but systemd is far too complex and too central to risk something like that, which really honestly does help prove the larger point that systemd's project design is flawed.

I can't imagine there's anything I'd need to patch traditional init, or upstart on RHEL6, for, but I'd feel comfortable after a bit of testing releasing it if I had to; there's simply not very much it does, the complexity is mostly in the things it launches, like /etc/rc.sysinit. No way I'd risk that with systemd.