On 08.07.2014 14:58, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > On 07/08/2014 04:22 AM, Always Learning wrote: >> >> On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 20:46 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> On 07/07/2014 07:47 PM, Always Learning wrote: >>>> Reading about systemd, it seems it is not well liked and reminiscent of >>>> Microsoft's "put everything into the Windows Registry" (Win 95 onwards). >>>> >>>> Is there a practical alternative to omnipresent, or invasive, systemd ? >> >>> So you are following the thread on the Fedora list? I have been >>> ignoring it. >> >> No. I read some of >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_topic&q=systemd >> >> The systemd proponent, advocate and chief developer? wants to >> abolish /etc and /var in favour of having the /etc and /var data >> in /usr. > err.. what? even on that wild fedora thread this did not come up!!! > > i will presume that you understood well your information source and you > are actually know what you are referring to ... so, could you elaborate > more about this?(with some references) > i use systemd for some time (and i keep myslef informed about it) and i > would need to know in time about this kind of change.. There are no plans to "abolish" /etc and /var. The idea is that rather than say proftpd shipping a default config file /etc/proftpd.conf that you then have to edit for you needs instead it will ship the default config somewhere in /usr and let the config in /etc override the one in /usr. That way if you want to "factory reset" the system you can basically clear out /etc and you are back do the defaults. The same applies to /var. The idea is that /etc and /var become "site-local" directories that only contain the config you actually changed from the defaults for this system. Since you already have experience with systemd you are already familiar with this system where it stores its unit files in /usr/lib/systemd and if you want to change some of them you copy them to /etc/systemd and change them there. Same principle. /etc and /var will stay as valid as ever though and are not being "abolished". Regards, Dennis