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"Closer in spirit" does not mean anything tangible in the real world, you are merely playing with words.

Solaris SMF is vastly simpler than systemd and has a much narrower scope and focus. I don't recall mentioning bash scripts in the post you replied to, so you are simply being disingenuous by presenting a false dichotomy.

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I find it really hard to believe that you were unable to understand what I meant.

The complexity of Sysvinit is orders of magnitude less than that of systemd.

This whole thread is a discussion of the relative complexity between sysvinit and systemd. Sysvinit uses shell scripts to implement much of the logic around starting and stopping services. Any discussion of sysvinit and systemd is going to involve bash. It's disingenuous to pretend otherwise.

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I will copy my post again, here, to expose your strawman or unwillingness to stop deflecting:

"One would ask himself how the BSDs manage to do it (no systemd), Android (no systemd), ChromeOS (no systemd), Solaris/Illumos (no systemd) ... Your arguments hold no merit whatsoever. The fact is that all the problems you describe have been solved, properly, multiple times _before_ systemd entered the picture. The reasons behind systemd mass adoption were political and Redhat exerted a lot of pressure at the time and in many ways, still do."

This is the post you replied to, with arguments that (still) hold no merit. Now you are trying to shift this into something else rather than stick to the points I made _in this thread_. You pick and choose a reply of mine _from a different thread_. Moreover, you write: "This whole thread is a discussion of the relative complexity between sysvinit and systemd". No it is not. As I wrote: "The fact is that all the problems you describe have been solved, properly, multiple times _before_ systemd entered the picture."

I would take you more seriously if you stopped presenting one logical fallacy after another.

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It is a logical fallacy to ignore context when making an argument.