Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Artix Linux and Xlibre Date: 28 Jul 2025 05:27:38 GMT Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <1063lgp$jmj$2@reader1.panix.com> <1063ruo$2kgsj$3@dont-email.me> <10640fb$1gqnn$2@dont-email.me> <1066fna$37486$2@dont-email.me> <6SGdneAURJiudBv1nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net mhRhqv14wX3hBUrs2+W1IQbia4oeOLDCxXY1fDPJ9kIKzOxTIs Cancel-Lock: sha1:CL5Lkp7ds+p+Uir0Zv3bcLPJnoM= sha256:myuTZa96qui7msJFoRHM4/zT92ibYq10fwhWR3TPrPE= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:69996 On Sun, 27 Jul 2025 23:06:24 -0400, c186282 wrote: > On 7/27/25 8:19 PM, Rich wrote: >> Bobbie Sellers wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 7/26/25 17:30, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>>> On Sat, 26 Jul 2025 18:40:19 -0400, Popping Mad wrote: >>>> >>>>> Free of systemd ... >>>> >>>> Seems they have to implement a whole systemd-compatibility layer, >>>> just to allow them to pull in packages from Arch upstream without >>>> breaking . >>>> >>> Systemd was un-necessary but some people will do anything to >>> controlt the choices of other people. Which may work in Enterprise >>> situations. I dunno about that since I have never dealt with that. >> >> Lawrence is our local systemd evangelizer. > > Systemd doesn't need evangelizing ... it either serves your needs or > it doesn't. It's not evil nor Devil's Spawn nor a Second Coming. If > SysV will do it for you then stick to SysV. That works, it's very > well documented and it's fairly simple. For me the best of all worlds is if I'm not sure which is being used. I haven't messed with init scripts in decades or systemd stuff. So far anything I've installed took care of itself and made the necessary entries to start the service.