Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

["Bruce Hill, Jr." <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>]

On March 17, 2012 at 8:48 PM Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17/03/12 13:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > Hello, Nikos.
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 08:25:48AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >
> >>> Happy Computer Users, systemd is on your horizon.
> >
> >> No, we don't.  I hope systemd arrives soon.  It's the best init system
I
> >> ever saw.
> >
> > What's so good about it?  What will it do for me?
> >
> > I have this horrible sneaking suspicion that it will be more
complicated
> > than /sbin/init + OpenRC, just like udev + initramfs is more
complicated
> > than udev, and CUPS is more complicated than classical lpr.
> >
> > Why do you find it so good?
>
> No idea.  I only posted this because the OP didn't say what's bad about
> systemd :-)  I really don't know I should care whether my system runs
> OpenRC or systemd.
>
>


I'm the OP, and often I don't know how to express myself.

It is my understanding that systemd is going to force an initramfs on you
even if you only have / and no other partitions. (Could it be initrd and
not initramfs?)

I'm all for automounting a device when it's plugged in, if that's what the
user chooses. But for me, with my workstation, laptop, wife's PC and
daughter's laptop -- we just don't need or care for it. Seems a shame to be
using udev and then have to completely change your system when 181 comes
out, or freeze it at .

Therefore, we don't install anything to automount devices. We have lines
such as these in fstab:

UUID=6C5F-3742    /Libby-Vivitar   vfat
noauto,users,rw,gid=100,dmask=0002,fmask=0113  0 0

for those devices we own. When we get a new device, we add a new line.

We don't use a DE either, just Fluxbox.

The bottom line is that I don't like things being forced on me (hint, "get
the vaseline, they're on the way!") And I don't like upstream forcing such
nefarious changes on the distros. And for the Lennart fanboi, his coding is
so questionable that "Lennartware" has become derogatory slang. (Of course,
you already know that.)
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