Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

[Mark Carroll <mtbc@ixod.org>]

Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> writes:
(snip)
> * The set of people hostile to systemd seems to include a lot of people 
> who don't see much need for the likes of ConsoleKit either.
(snip)

This is actually a rather good point. The machines I am most
conservative about, and wanting to make sure that they boot well and can
easily be repaired when not, are pretty much exactly those I wouldn't
exactly have a heavyweight desktop environment on either.

And, indeed, even on the laptop from which I'm writing this message,
there's no consolekit or policykit or suchlike. So long as I can keep it
minimal and tractable, I'm happy: what I like about Linux is getting to
understand and control much of what goes on under the hood, and with
luck I'll get to continue being able to do exactly that. (This is one
nice thing about init systems that make heavy use of shell scripts: at
least I can easily read and understand and adjust them!)

I assume others have different desires, and in its present form systemd
may well support them better, with apparently having been designed with
different goals in mind.

-- Mark