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Devuan Jessie beta released

Devuan Jessie beta released

Posted May 2, 2016 15:59 UTC (Mon) by johannbg (guest, #65743)
In reply to: Devuan Jessie beta released by anselm
Parent article: Devuan Jessie beta released

Well there are cases where you still "cobbled-together" components with systemd like for example it's a common misconception that type timer units replace a cron based solution that stems from people filled with the bright idea of migrate "everything" to native systemd type units which ends up like a work of bunch of idiots re-implementing cron in the form of timer units but now with the double the administrative overhead to it's end users and no technical benefits.

When I went through the whole components that ship cron scripts in Fedora ( ca 100 components ) only half of that was applicable to be migrated to timer units and once I had gone through those ca 50 components that ship those cron scripts and filtered out the unused, obsoleted scripted trash which seem to be shipped and exist only to waste peoples space on hardrives or serve as an example to the terminal world how not to write a script, I ended up with roughly 30 components which would have been migrated.

In the above example these two solution complement each other short comings and should be implemented as such where applicable in the distribution and elsewhere not re-implemented in the form of type timer units instead of cron scripts because they "can" or systemd is "hot" for the moment.


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