[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Deprecate draknetcenter+network init scripts after systemd becomes default.

Tue Aug 23 13:16:32 CEST 2011

On 23/08/2011 12:26, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>> How would removing initscripts support helps enhancing networkmanager
+>> integration ?
+>
+> Because the current philosophy of the Unix legacy is lots of individual
+> utils from various packages cobbled together with some glue shell
+> scripting code... and it's dying.
+>
+> The things that these individual tools implement are a few relatively
+> simply commands to the kernel and it doesn't make sense to do all this
+> in shell. It makes much more sense to do all these jobs in efficient
+> code that runs *quickly* without forking hundreds of times. The code is
+> still perfectly visible and easily hackable, but now things are much
+> more robust and efficient.
+Booting faster makes sense on desktops, not on servers. My general 
+impression in this new trend (systemd, networkmanager, etc...) is the 
+need to compete with proprietary system (macos, windows) on end-user 
+segment, at the cost of genericity and simplicity.
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #104:
+
+backup tape overwritten with copy of system manager's favourite CD
+