[mdlug] Systemd and all of it's nonsensical BS

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 08:30 -0500, Michael ORourke wrote:
> I've got the solution to the systemd complexities...
> What if it had a unified hierarchical configuration database, which
> stored thousands of key-pairs and grouped them by functional
> categories, perhaps call them "nests".  Also, we will need some
> low-level utilities that can edit the entries in the nests,

We have that; it is called LDAP, D-CONF, gconf, etc...  or dot-files.
Structured configuration makes complex systems manageable.

>  but if you edit the wrong thing, them the system will refuse to run
> and you will most likely have to reload the OS.  Sounds like a good
> solution to me.  ;-)

This failure to run would be an implementation flaw, not a flaw of the
concept.

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam at whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA