[ale] systemd or not

[Michael B. Trausch]

On 09/06/2014 04:30 PM, James Sumners wrote:
> Ugh. That's whole LOT of stuff that the supposed "init system" is doing.
> Why would I want the init system managing the GUI environment (or even
> window manager)? Why would I want the init system doing syslog and
> logrotate's jobs? Why would I want the init system managing the
> configuration for everything else?
>
> Answer: I don't.

Answer is: They don't.  PID 1 is not involved in that.  You're either 
not reading about what systemd is and how it works, or you don't care.

Also note that systemd is *not* an init system.  It is a "system 
manager".  And /that/ is what it does well.

     --- Mike
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