On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > >>> was - the requirements at that time were nearly/completely >>> different. We have different scenarios right now. >> >> Really? What application could you not start with sysv init syntax? >> What CPU has become too slow to start things serially? What feature >> do you need that could not have been added without breaking other >> existing work? >> > > <irony> > The feature of advantage is fast boot. As Linux like Windows needs reboot > often, it is awfully important. And all of you, dinosaurs (who saw years > long uptime of Linux machines) who don't care that boot takes 60 seconds > now instead of 4 minutes should just shut up. > </irony> > > Let me second what you said. I also would add: In my opinion it is not > clever to keep settings that are expressed by plain ASCII text being > marked up, "dressed into junk", XML. For human to read them you need > "undress" them (you GUI guys may forget that your GUI does that - not > literally of course), and to pass them to systemd itself one has strip the > junk (XML markup). The same goes about firewalld. > > But what am I doing. The World passed that point... > I guess debugging the GUIs that make the config files accessible will be job security for the young guys that replace us... -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com