Devuan Jessie beta released

Posted May 3, 2016 22:03 UTC (Tue) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Devuan Jessie beta released by dlang
Parent article: Devuan Jessie beta released

if you end up with a separate config file for each service, it's not really much better than a separate script file for each service. You still have to touch every file if you want to add something for every service.

It is if your configuration file is only a dozen lines long in a very simple and robust format, as opposed to a few screenfuls of arbitrary shell script. It would be reasonable to use a script to add a directive to, say, every “[Service]” section of a selection of systemd unit files, but you wouldn't really want to do that to a bunch of init scripts.

I really don't like the "systemd provides a default file and your custom one gets merged with it" approach, I would much prefer a "the distro provides a default that you can replace"

You're perfectly free to do that with systemd, too. Which approach you take would depend on the nature and the size of the changes that you want to make.