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

[Aaron Kulkis]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 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.

Woosh! right over your head.....


>
>>   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.
>

Some designs are so baldy flawed, that there is no way to implement them
in a way which is not also flawed.

OS/360 is an exmplae.

Another is Systemd