Re: [LAU] [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

Have you ever actually tried to get SysV Init scripts to work out the dependencies among themselves? Even if you get the non-standardized syntax right... most SysV implementations don't even support it (e.g. Debian). systemd offers solutions to this that result in faster boot-time, a more reliable boot (fewer race conditions), and (eventually) less system init-script maintenance time. SysV only offers that "after all the countless hours of hand crafting these damn scripts and hand-sorting them into the right order -- if you don't touch them then they won't break." At some point you have to turn a deaf ear to nay-sayers and move on.