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by Arch-TK
89 days ago
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The word was "declarative" not descriptive. There is nothing descriptive about `Wants`, `Before`, `After`, `Requires`, `Requisite`, `BindsTo`, `PartOf`, `Upholds`, `Conflicts`, ... we could go on. And we can stop there. (To clarify, _I_ know what these all mean, but certainly I didn't have a clue what they meant until I read the docs about and didn't fully understand the nuances of these until I re-read those docs many times and read the source code.) But the "declarative"-ness of systemd's configuration files can also be put into question when it's incredibly common to find an `ExecStartPre` containing a shell oneliner. That being said, my goal was not to start a discussion about systemd here. My goal was to call out the completely unproductive strawmanning of systemd critics by the person I was replying to. |
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