Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports
On 07/18/2013 01:29 AM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> - Reliable, low-maintenance system startup (no races / ordering bugs)
Could you point at these bugs?
> - Reliable service supervision
Have you tried using rc-status? Or do you mean restarting crashed daemons?
> - Fast startup
I thought everyone claimed (including systemd supporters) that this was
a "teenager side effect" which we didn't care much about.
> - Sensible dynamic service management in response to post-boot events
> (network up/down, device add/remove, etc).
Isn't this the role of udev?
> - Simple, declarative syntax
>
> My understanding is that OpenRC only addresses the last of these points, and
> adds nothing over sysv-rc for the rest.
I don't agree with this view, and I believe that indeed, you
miss-understood. This wiki page (which has been posted here before)
doesn't agree with your view either:
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Talk:Comparison_of_init_systems
Reducing OpenRC improvements to only the syntax of init scripts is just
not right. Cgroups support and the rc-status command alone are nice
features that you discarded/forgot/didn't know about.
Thomas
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