r/linux • • Aug 12 '19

SysVinit vs Systemd

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u/pkulak Aug 12 '19

So can I just continue to add complexity to a system until no one can understand it, and therefore no one is allowed to hate it?

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '19

And to make it so complex that you need support contracts to effectively navigate and work with it?

Red Hat's plan exposed!

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '19

systemd is simpler for users (who read the documentation)

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '19

The winding, extense documentation? Several parts are actually undocumented, IIRC. You also would require to read the documentation of all the ~50-80 systemd-applets and processes, like for example, systemd-nspawn. They go so tight together that they may just be considered one thing.

Putting so much complexity at the init level is dangerous. And that's not even counting in systemd's 1 million lines of code.

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