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Re: Let's have a vote!



Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> writes:

> On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:49:52 +0200
> Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> writes:
>> 
>> >
>> > And last but not least is the alternative of holding your nose and
>> > using systemd. If I go that route, the first thing I'm going to do
>> > is remove daemons from systemd's control and move them to
>> > Daemontools. As a matter of fact, I've created a cron replacement
>> > in Python, which tonight I'm going to daemonize using Daemontools.
>> > I'm getting a lot of Daemontools practice, because no matter what
>> > my init, Daemontools might end up being a better alternative for
>> > most of my daemons.
>> >
>> I really don't get this. In your distaste for systemd you end up
>> reimplenting it with twine and baling wire. This is not logical,
>> rational disagreement, this is cutting off your nose to spite your
>> face.
>
> A) Twine and baling wire is better than monolithic entanglement.

Yeah, after this I'm really not going to take you seriously anymore.
>
> B) If you try Daemontools, you just might switch your view of which is
>    twine and baling wire, 

Yeah, mixing sysvinit and daemontools, especially if you only do this to
try and duplicate systemd features, is twine and baling wire. You might
want to check your assumptions, you don't know what I use at
work. Here's a hint: I'm a sysadmin. 


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