[lotsofcows]

What a puerile attempt at trivialising someone's concerns. Why do you think a file length is important? What you are demonstrating is the very lack of control that people are complaining about. Well done, you've replaced the standard functionality with an ini file. What about non-standard functionality? Flexibility? Transparency? The logging concerns? The dbus concerns?

I think one of my biggest concerns with systemd is that there seems to be little valid debate around it. The pro-brigade mock the anti brigade with little attempt to address their concerns.

[MetaCosm]

I have been using the tried and true ostrich technique to avoid the topic (the whole systemd debate). But honestly it feels like the file on the right is a whole lot more opaque. If (or when) it goes horribly wrong, I am not certain I would know where to start, as compared to a simple script file where I would walk it / debug it.