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

Tue Aug 23 15:37:03 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 23/08/11 14:28 did gyre and gimble:
+> What's more gaining 20s on a server when the IBM uefi/firmware take *minutes* to
+> setup the machine is worthless.
+
+Agreed, but I've addressed why other features make systemd a *much* more
+attractive option on the server in my previous reply so I won't repeat
+it here. People suggesting that systemd is purely about boot speed and
+ignoring all the other things mean they've either not researched the
+topic they are discussing or are deliberately using irrelevant
+"benefits" for a given area of discussion to suggest that it doesn't
+help at all in that area. I prefer to talk about things contextually. I
+also don't really care about boot speed on the server, but that's not
+the point.
+
+> On the server side, we still manage RHEL networking through old style
+> ifcfg* config files
+
+I suspect something similar will still be the case even in the near
+future, but said script files will be much simpler and more standard
+(ultimately ini syntax, rather than shell syntax) and the tools that
+interpret those static configurations will also become much simpler (no
+more masses of shell script glueing together a myriad of binaries).
+
+I don't know the full details of how this will look yet, but I am at no
+point suggesting that network manager itself will be used on the server.
+All I'm saying is that things will be changing in both cases.
+
+Col
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