[mythtv-users] Who's running Myth on Arch, and what do you think?

[Stephen P. Villano]

On 11/25/13 11:03 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "R. G. Newbury" <newbury at mandamus.org>
>> There is no doubt that systemd is *different*. And early versions had
>> some ... quirks. But when set up properly, it boots FAST and provides
>> much more granularity and control of what runs. Unfortunately, like
>> pulse it is hard to find good information about how it works.
> And that, right there, is my problem with it.  It appears to have a 
> stupidly high Bus Factor; if Lennart gets hit by a truck, *no one* knows
> how their machines boot.  And since that's my stock in trade commercially,
> it makes me really really nervous.
>
> And of course, since distros have switched to it wholesale, *developers and
> packagers aren't /maintaining/ their initscripts anymore*, so you cannot
> simply ignore it and install sysVinit yourself; they're even *taking those 
> scripts out of the packages*.
>
> Which seems more than a little bit evil to me.
>
> Deprecate it, sure.  Warn it might need tuning, fine.  Put "exit 1" at the
> top of the script, great.
>
> But *deleting it from the package*?  No; that's beyond the pale.
>
> But apparently, Lennart's snozzberries are *really* tasty...
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>
So, only one person in the whole wide world knows how to implement or
even how systemd works?
One person ported systemd to each Linux distro that is using it, with no
other developer knowing how that was done?

Sorry, rather sounds like the old argument about sendmail.cf.
Remember, there were three people who fully comprehended sendmail.cf.
One was dead, two were insane...