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Re: systemd: some more questions



Ralf Mardorf writes:
 > > Any reason for this? 
 > > 
 > > This  could create  "a  certain  amount of  work"  to  people used  to
 > > automate things by means of shell scripts...
 > 
 > It's not only work to edit scripts,

And hunting those you wrote years.... I wonder how will libvirt react
to this name change.

 > but also a pain to remember such a
 > counterintuitive name. IMO eth_ is easy to remember, whereas enp_s_ is
 > horrible.

Yep. What does it mean?

 > However, we need to become used to systemd, SysVinit/initscripts have no
 > future, so we shouldn't waste additional time for lamenting ;).
 
Systemd is bound to Linux. There are other free kernel around that can
run the GNU userspace utilities.

Linux may lose shares of market where it is stronger (serverside), I
would simply change O.S.

 > I don't use NetworkManger and things like that, but write scripts.
 > Fortunately editors have options to replace terms.

Me too. I have a set of fixed network configuration (work here, work
there, home...) and a script to switch among them. Plust there are
some very old scripts - still in use - to start the OS-from-hell VMs.

 > Perhaps you can write a script to automatically change such terms
 > without using an editor. 

I think I would program my editor to work on some kind of
/usr/bin/find output.

Am I the only one there who readed this 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unix_Programming_Environment?

(once reading this you think that the .sh suffix is not only
unnecessary, it is UGLY!)

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