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by Redoubts 2691 days ago
> Maintaining of all these special cases requires lot of knowledge.

Distro maintainers need to have a lot of knowledge about their init system. There's no way out of that. It's probably something everyone should know a little about as well.

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> Distro maintainers need to have a lot of knowledge about their init system. There's no way out of that. It's probably something everyone should know a little about as well.

Then maybe the init system should be simpler and not attempt to ingratiate itself with UEFI or attempt to replace su, sudo, syslogd, netcat, resolvconf, etc.