Jessie and Systemd integration
Thanks very much, everyone.
I especially appreciate the dependency information with no bias. Just
the facts is always appreciated on an emotional issue such as this.
The truth is that I can live with a stray library or a shim - but the
rest leaves me concerned.
Setting aside all of the controversy, there seems to be one undeniable
design fact. Unless I am overlooking something relevant, Systemd is
adding a single point of failure on a critical process chain. On a
desktop, I don't care, but on a 24/7 server that is something I really
can't afford. Any server will eventually fail, but I don't feel
comfortable risking cron timing, startup and logging failure all in one
swoop by having systemd control everything.
I know you can disable portions of systemd, because I have, but the
pervasive nature of the package dependencies makes it much harder to
ignore.
From the sound of things, I'd very much like to give Debian 8 the
benefit of the doubt. I'll wait and see, if there are more posts and
not dismiss it entirely. Until more information comes in down the road,
it is probably prudent for me to continue to look at a server migration
plan that firmly does not include systemd.
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