Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] Russ Allbery 

> Peter Dolding <oiaohm@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > ExecStartPre=, ExecStartPost= can be written many times.
> 
> > ExecStartPre= rm somewhere
> > ExecStartPre= touch somewhere
> 
> That really doesn't help, because...
> 
> > In fact lot of cases I see one line entries in systemd and I see bad
> > form.  Unless one line has like if or for statements its really bad
> > form inside systemd.
> 
> ...of this.  If you can't write the scripts with proper block structure,
> it's actually better to just externalize them in a separate file rather
> than doing something this awful to try to inline them.
> 
> I don't think you're going to convince me to like this syntax.  :)  But
> it's a minor issue.

Disliking the syntax is of course fair enough. :-) In general, there
should be enough declarative knobs that you can twiddle that you don't
need to write shell scripts.  That's the idea, at least.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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