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Systemd controversy be like
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That might have been true a decade ago. I don't actually know. I do know that modern init scripts for modern alternatives to systemd are barely longer than systemd service scripts though. So that's kind of an insane take.
can you give examples of some? Not trying to bd sarcastic, i do just want to see what alternatives are doing.
Sure, that seems pretty reasonable. Here's the init script for sddm:
That's it. That's the whole thing.
That's a pretty simple one though, so here's Alsa. It's a more complex one:
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That's definitely longer than a systemd service, but you'd have to write an awful lot of them to be more code than all of systemd. Overall the entire /etc/init.d folder on my PC where all the init scripts even for the stuff I'm not using are stored is a grand total of 147.7 KiB. Not exactly an unmanageable amount of code, in my humble opinion.
Its certainly easier to read than most old init scripts and I can see why some distros and openbsd would pick it over systemd for more control. I'm not likely to pick a distro that uses it anytime soon, but i can see why some do.
That's totally fair. I'm not some weird evangelist or anything. I just like options and think OpenRC is kinda neat. There's nothing wrong with systemd, and honestly it's more work using other options. Not for the actual init system, but for some of the other stuff systemd does. I've had to learn cron, and that has been... interesting. It feels like all of the documentation around cron just assumes you already know how cron works. I'm still not sure if I'm doing it right, but I've had a good time and my computer works, and really that's good enough for me.
Almost looks like something taken from ASL linux.
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